tinyMediaManager Changelog

What's new in tinyMediaManager 5.0.4

Apr 8, 2024
  • (movie/TV show) group the artwork type in the artwork panel for better visibility
  • fixed trailer downloading for newer trailers #2532
  • (stacking) improve stacking detection of file names
  • (Jellyfin) do not write artwork URLs into the NFO files #2518
  • adopted the column padding to do not clip runtime #2517
  • enhanced displaying of season names #2501

New in tinyMediaManager 5.0.4 Pre-release (Apr 2, 2024)

  • (movie/TV show) group the artwork type in the artwork panel for better visibility
  • fixed trailer downloading for newer trailers #2532
  • (stacking) improve stacking detection of file names
  • (Jellyfin) do not write artwork URLs into the NFO files #2518
  • adopted the column padding to do not clip runtime #2517
  • enhanced displaying of season names #2501

New in tinyMediaManager 5.0.3 (Mar 4, 2024)

  • upgraded libmediainfo to 24.01
  • respect setting for trash folder when deleting movies/TV shows #2477
  • (TVDB) scrape missing country for shows #2478
  • (TVDB) able to scrape language names (default enabled) #2478
  • (IMDB) also parse “T” certifications
  • (TV shows) added production company and certification to the renamer eamples #2470 #2481
  • enhanced table cell width when using a bigger font size #2466
  • MediaInfo: workaround for reading different runtime (API vs ML) #2484
  • (TMDB) fied fetching rating (via mdblist.com) #2276
  • (TV show) fied scraping of TV show fanart #2483
  • (Ratings) fi some maValues #2492
  • (Update) fi corner-case for stacking #2490
  • (OpenSubtitles.com) fied searching for some languages (pt-PT, pt-BR, zh-CN, zh-TW)
  • (TV shows) detect season artwork for seasons with 6 digits too #2487
  • fied loading of missing metadata filter presets #2496

New in tinyMediaManager 5.0.2 (Mar 4, 2024)

  • (TV shows) added an option to choose the rating source priority #2405
  • (KodiRPC) support for multiple combined Kodi datasources #2465
  • improve performance of update data sources in better ecluding locked objects
  • reverted #2296 - pre-set of filters in the image chooser
  • fied multi threading access problems for genres #2444
  • (TMDB) fetch all episode stills #2387
  • fied crash on empty subtitle objects #2452
  • fied some Docker related problems #2445
  • enhanced language detection for audio streams
  • fied detection of season posters (folder.jpg)
  • fied downloading of artwork #2454
  • fied opening trailers twice when pressing the play button
  • fied updating of changed artwork #2446
  • improved automatic downloading of trailers #2455
  • (Trailer) allow renaming into a disc folder (Kodi style) #2451
  • fi NFO writing removing all the file properties #2463
  • (MovieSets) better align dateAdded, were cut-off #2464

New in tinyMediaManager 5.0.1 (Jan 20, 2024)

  • Add French TP certificate
  • Detect some more known audio codecs
  • Fixed missing window decorations on Wayland
  • (NFO) prefer to write user rating without decimals
  • (v4 data import) copy the launcher-extra.yml to the correct folder
  • Embed season artwork into the TV show artwork panel
  • Avoid exceptions on “update data sources”
  • Enhanced re-building the image cache after renaming
  • Rework subtitle language and title parsing
  • Fix sorting of empty MovieSets
  • Re-set new flag on “Update selected movie(s)” too
  • Do not add dummy episodes multiple times to a season
  • Fixed loading native libs in aarch64/amd64 Docker container
  • Prefer existing data when downloading missing artwork
  • Fix UI divider drifting a few pixels after each restart

New in tinyMediaManager 5.0.0 (Jan 2, 2024)

  • Adopted storage locations to the operating system defaults (for new installations):
  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/tinyMediaManager
  • Windows: Users homeAppDataRoaming
  • Linux: ~/.local/share/tinyMediaManager
  • added an extra portable build for local storage
  • Subtitle handling rework:
  • support for any language/locale style, greatly improved detection
  • check new "original" language style for renaming
  • providing signed installers (Windows, macOS)
  • changed Linux ARM build to 64 bit (arm64/aarch64)
  • enabled usage of different episode groups #1935 #1138 #736
  • added support for OpenSubtitles.com
  • unified logo and clearlogo usage #2148
  • ATTENTION: you should review your logo and clearlogo settings!
  • reworked some dialogs to a material design like input dialog
  • enhanced automatic artwork downloading #2184, #2182
  • added subtitle format info to media files tab and filters #1709
  • fetch ratings: remember last used rating sources #1940
  • added some more movie editions per default #1987
  • writing season NFO files (mainly for Emby) #1697
  • added season plot
  • added a movie set export engine #1928
  • also scrape & identify episode guest stars
  • added a bulk editor for TV shows and episodes #1866
  • filter enhancements: numerical values can now be filtered with various other comparison methods #1952
  • many new filters #1052 #1952 #1949
  • added an option to control how the "new" flag should be cleared
  • added a logo for HDR/Dolby Vision #2191
  • movie/TV shows) added templates for exporting XML files for tagging *.mkv using mkvtoolnix suite. thx @curious_ralf
  • added EpisodeCount/SeasonCount filter
  • able to identify multiple HDR streams and fallbacks #2213
  • IMDB) added action to fetch Top 250 numbers; add support for TvShows
  • added an action to reset the "new" flag
  • FFmpeg) support stacked movies for generating previews #2271
  • Added an option to write the movie set folder/artwork in Emby style
  • added mdblist.com as new rating source #2276
  • added locked filter for movies and tv shows
  • added bulk edit option for "Date Added" (movies / tv-shows) #2013
  • added HFR(Higher Frame Rate) Logo if mediafile has more or equal 48 fps #1376
  • added "Criterion Collection" as known edition #2295
  • added certification column (tv show) #2317
  • TRAKT) improve search performance, fixed TV poster
  • Jellyfin) added backdrop naming for fanart #2322
  • added ImdbId, TmdbId and TraktId Filter for movies
  • added an alternate API server for TMDB (api.tmdb.org)
  • added an action to match uncategorized episodes by its title only.
  • added trailer.ext renaming format #2368
  • fixed displaying missing season metadata #2238
  • fixed downloading of season artwork #2258
  • better handling of image cache upon rename
  • added an option to write season data (NFO/artwork) for unavailable seasons
  • (movie) renamer preview now shows subfolders too #2010
  • (IMDB) adapt keywords parsing to new style
  • (TVDB) also scrape season overview/names #2275
  • do not drop audio channels with empty bitrate #2262
  • do not write NFO files on "update data sources"
  • fix cloning of TV episodes #2309
  • fixed rebuilding image cache #2268
  • improve reloading of NFO files; exception for those without s/e numbers #2266
  • (FFmpeg) do not show generated artwork twice in the image chooser #2270
  • fix plot formatting with line-breaks #2286
  • fix loading season-specials.nfo #2343
  • fixed detection of widescreen 576p #2344
  • fix creation of -mediainfo.xml with special characters #2376

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.14 (Nov 6, 2023)

  • upgraded libmediainfo to 23.09
  • adapt IMDB parsing due to changed site
  • dropping DavesTrailerPage scraper, since Apple closed their trailer site
  • removed Apple trailers from hd-trailers.net and TMDB scraper
  • remove any leading/trailing spaces from user API keys #2303
  • remove orphaned files of the MP4 parser from the temporary folder
  • fied detection of widescreen 576p #2344

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.13 (Aug 19, 2023)

  • MediaInfo: also support their sidecar file naming
  • Improve ID detection from file-/folder name
  • Several fixes for IMDb
  • Fix NFO naming for disc style movies
  • Fix reordering of TV show data sources
  • Fixed wrong translation for reading TV show nfo files
  • Adapt CLI help dialog for resized window
  • (Trakt.tv) fixed refreshing the access token
  • Fixed sorting of movies without a movie set
  • Fixed HTTP 403 errors from YT
  • Do not drop audio channels with empty bitrate
  • Do not write NFO files on “update data sources”
  • Fixed rebuilding image cache
  • (FFmpeg) do not show generated artwork twice in the image chooser

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.12 (Jul 5, 2023)

  • (FFmpeg) set correct artwork metadata for the enhanced artwork download algorithm #2181
  • Added an action to export internal data for issue analysis
  • Encrypt exported logs/data for your privacy
  • Do not always download actor images, when “overwrite existing” is false
  • Rewrite NFO file after gathering mediainfo !488
  • Enhanced media source detection
  • Ignore case when checking for special folders (Trailers, Behind The Scenes, Featurettes, …) #2205
  • Enhanced detection of movies in “update data sources”
  • Enhanced detection of season/episode names
  • Movie Picker export template update (thx @bastienpruvost)
  • New “Dark” export templates for movies and TV shows (thx @jhartlep)
  • Only trigger Trakt.tv sync if there is anything to sync

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.11.1 (May 23, 2023)

  • Some fixes/enhancements on the automatic artwork download algorithm #2182, #2184
  • Use "date added" as default date for Trakt.tv sync #2183
  • (Trakt) added sanity check: we must not sync a date in the future #2183

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.11 (May 20, 2023)

  • Added Chinese (Singapore) to the scraper languages
  • (renamer) audioChannels in “dot” notation (6ch -> 5.1)
  • (bulk edit) remember last used tab when bulk editing
  • Upgraded libmediainfo to 23.04
  • Added Macedonian to the scraper languages
  • (mediainfo) extract subtitles from audio files too
  • (Trakt) added an option to choose which date field is used for “collected at”
  • (TMDB) enhanced loading of localized episode content (title, original title, plot)
  • Fixed Kodi RPC mappings
  • Fixed trailer downloading
  • (Docker) force writing of window sizes/locations on shutdown
  • (TMDB/TVDB) do not scrape empty episode names if no translation is available
  • (movie set) downloading of artwork with different extensions
  • (TV shows) fixed renaming of video extras
  • Fix extras detection for TV shows/episodes
  • (movie) fix renaming of stacked subtitles
  • Fix renamer preview for extras
  • Added a faster way to re-evaluate MMD on each update
  • Made update data sources more crash resistant
  • Enhanced logic to detect scraped status
  • Enhanced extra(s) handling for episodes
  • Enhanced multi movie detection
  • Fixed pre-set of episode thumbs in the “Scrape metadata of selected episodes” dialog
  • Moved version info into the toolbar
  • Added “Canceled” status for TV shows
  • Improved edition detection from filename
  • Some enhancements on the automatic artwork download algorithm

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.10 (Apr 10, 2023)

  • added new “unique” array renderer
  • (FFmpeg) added some variance to create different thumbs everytime #2137
  • improved loading speed of movie and TV show module
  • fixed overwriting existing artwork on download #2109
  • (IMDB/TMDB) scrape certifications for TV shows #2116
  • do not create a movie set without title from a damaged NFO
  • fix language selector #2133
  • fix TvShow update not finding/reading episode NFO files #2126
  • (FFmpeg) added some mitigations for wrong settings #2112
  • (HD-trailers) fix scraping
  • (TV shows) handle “uncategorized” missing episodes in the same way as missing specials

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.9 (Mar 20, 2023)

  • (TVDB) only scrape the requested certification code
  • fiduplicate filter with movie sets scraped from TMDB #2024
  • fixed parsing language from libmediainfo #2036
  • (movie) fixed loading of custom editions #2043
  • (TMDB) fixed classification of artwork (logos) #2044
  • (TV show) fixed fetching of missing episode thumbs #2045
  • (HTTP API) wait for all image downloads before renaming
  • enhanced the array renderer (also render lists with other types than strings)
  • (TV shows) hanging when scraping for episodes #1411
  • (TV shows) also allow to choose season artwork when scraping TV shows
  • (movie) ficharacter escaping of path separators #2049
  • (Trakt.tv) enhanced conversion for atmos/hdr codec in metadata sync (th@louislach)
  • (moviesets) do not allow editing of ‘dummy’ movies #2064
  • (TV show) re-evaluate filter state after changes #2047
  • (JMTE) replacement renderer can also be called for a single char
  • (API) scope “unscraped” has been added to our HTTP API
  • improved performance of “update data sources” when Kodi sync is activated
  • sorting of video formats #2077
  • added certifications for BR #2074
  • (movie set) added an action to remove selected movies from the movie set #2064
  • some performance enhancements for the Kodi sync
  • fixed saving of filter dialog location #2081 #2032
  • display data sources in filter in the same order as in the settings #2079
  • (trakt) fixed linking to detail pages with ID #2085
  • fixed (re)setting watched date from Trakt and Kodi to NFO #2083
  • slightly tweak the split files pattern
  • fiactor display #2073
  • (OFDB) rework scraper, fitrailers
  • removed some unneeded actions

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.8 (Jan 15, 2023)

  • Added new style for Kodi v19+ https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=370489 (http://bit.ly/3IIJZLV)
  • Added an option to specify update check interval/disable update check completely
  • (movie, TV show) added the ability to copy renamer token into the clipboard (CTRL C, right click)
  • Upgraded libmediainfo to 22.12 + new implementation of the IMDB scraper (check scraper settings!)
  • Added new IMDB trailer scraper (needs to be activated in the settings)
  • Added a new renderer to process outputs from multiple renderers #1980 (http://bit.ly/3GYsbLk)
  • Open contet menu of movie/movie set/TV show lists via contet menu key on the keyboard
  • Automatically close renamer preview if nothing needs to be renamed #1964
  • Do not store filters if they are not active #1961
  • Do not remove missing episodes with unset DVD S/E #1960
  • (movie) create new editions when importing NFO files #1959 (movie) reserve more space for the edition dropdown #1963
  • (movie) added some more editions per default #1987
  • (movie) enabled strict case comparison when creating new editions #1969
  • Improve episode detection to find them also in optional [brackets]
  • (TV shows) fied filtering for missing episode thumbs #1977 able to echange movies with same name in case of MMD
  • Fi parsing MediaSource on echanged video files #1992
  • Remember all splitter locations #1966
  • (movie) enhanced detection of movie titles when parsing the data source
  • (AniDB) inform users when they are banned #1997
  • (movie, TV show) set playcount and lastplayed along with watched state in the NFO #1983
  • Fied deletion of filter presets when the warning has been disabled #2002
  • Added season name renamer token to the eamples #1968
  • Provide release date as another date field for UI #1981
  • Added "Passed" and "Approved" to US certifications #2001
  • Fied adding of new etrathumbs/etrafanarts #1996
  • Fanart.tv switch url back to original IMDB: artworks should only be downscaled, but never upscaled - #1988
  • Added some validation to the aspect ratio detection #2016
  • Prevent UI lockups when writing NFO files is not possible

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.7 Pre-release (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Better detect and parse movie structures #1932
  • Fixed changing of tags in episodes #1955
  • (IMDB) make cleaner calls to avoid HTTP 403 responses

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.6 (Nov 26, 2022)

  • Added reloading of mediainfo to the commandline interface
  • Subtitles: also parse language from filename, if MediaInfo detects none #1947
  • Updated Java to 17.0.5 #1948 #1933
  • Improved MediaSource detection (false positives, ordering) #1950
  • (TV show) also normalize database values before filtering the tree #1929
  • (IMDB) fixed search
  • (TV show) enhanced season detection for season artwork #1943
  • Added some performance improvements to the launcher

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.5 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Added the “date added” column to the movie set table #1937 + IMDB serves different search result pages - parse other one too x fixed wrong detection of the season number in season artwork filename (resulting in season2147483647-poster.jpg) #1943 x prevent crashes in the episode editor due to too large episode numbers #1917 x also enable FFmpeg for automatic fanart scraping #1927 x do not show rating star twice in the ratings panel #1931 x (TV show) normalize text before filtering the tree #1929 x AniDB: better filtering of search results x Improved search results when having a date in title #1932 x revert change, which prevented renaming of episodes w/o patterns x better handling of timeouts #1925

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.4 (Oct 8, 2022)

  • Added the ID of the movie/TV show to the search results #1824
  • Added a renamer token for TV show genres and TV show/episode ratings #1874
  • Also delete unwanted folders on rename #1692
  • TV episodes: also detect IDs from filename
  • Changing the user rating will remove it from the ratings
  • Added regular epression based skip folders for TV shows #1402
  • Added a path based filter for movies and TV shows #1891
  • Do not check title token for valid episode name pattern #1870
  • Fied timing of KodiRPC calls #1831
  • (TVDB) allow using a subscriber API key & pin
  • (TMDB) matching of episode numbers #1884
  • Update movie media source on echanged video files
  • Remove all scraped IDs when changing episode/season numbers
  • Upgrade MediaSource BluRay to UHD-BluRay, if video specs say so
  • (TVDB) also scrape certification data for TV shows
  • KodiRPC: better handling of URIs for matching (stackoverflow) #1903
  • Read real subtitle format via mediainfo

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.3 (Aug 27, 2022)

  • redesign the file type panel
  • added Top 250 column to the movie list #1838
  • fi displaying correct runtime for disc folders
  • preserve tags order #1848
  • better fallback scraper selection
  • merging multiple items should not remove anything #1840
  • (TMDB) fied rating download for TV shows
  • do not try to get episode thumbs from fanart.tv #1855
  • ignore tmdbcol (from Ember) in the duplicate filter
  • (AniDB) fied scraping of episodes
  • saving of changes genres/tags in the movie/TV show editor #1858
  • (TV shows) removed double assigned hotkey #1851
  • fi scraping TV season names #1856
  • also set unknown HDR values
  • respect preferred artwork sizes for TV shows too
  • fi loading values in the replacement renderer

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.2 (Aug 4, 2022)

  • Redesign artwork type naming panel
  • Check for eisting ID when using MPDb.TV scraper (metadata & artwork)
  • Fied aspect ratio detection; improved logging of errors
  • Fied occasional removing of cast when re-scrape #1840
  • Fied downloading of some YT trailers
  • Fied fetching of season artwork from TVDB #1841
  • Fied KodiRPC calls #1831
  • Download missing artwork did not respect the chosen scrapers
  • Improved fallback episode detection for files with just numbers
  • Improved error handling on reading MediaInfo MLs
  • Revert UI lib to fi scaling issues with bigger fonts
  • Hd-trailers.net better error handling
  • Fi FFMpeg artwork scraper for tv episodes #1842
  • Parse even more metadata fields of MKV files

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3.1 (Jul 31, 2022)

  • Removed copying of file attributes which resulted in inaccessible artwork
  • Fix for handling disc files not in their expected folder
  • Parse correct filename out of the mediainfo.xml (which is now mandatory for better detection)
  • Fix AspectRatioDetection on some files
  • Improved overall performance when dealing with disc folder structures (runtime calculation)
  • Fix for detection of the FFmpeg executable
  • Removed overwriting of the renamer pattern when using a media center preset

New in tinyMediaManager 4.3 (Jul 29, 2022)

  • added an action to scrape ratings from multiple scrapers #1672 (https://bit.ly/3yDBRY8)
  • fetch all possible IDs & ratings when scraping #1672
  • added a fallback strategy for the universal scraper #1684
  • added an action to lock objects on movie/TV show level
  • updated the bundled Java version to 17.0.2
  • bundled Java, libmediainfo and tinyFileDialogs for arm (32bit)
  • added an HTTP API for remote control of tinyMediaManager (https://bit.ly/3lcA6sQ)
  • added a movie scraper for AniDB #1728 (th@hudsonrj09)
  • added a regular expression based JMTE annotation #1611 (https://bit.ly/3wtIZUb)
  • added a renamer token for movie set inderespecting missing movies #1702
  • (AniDB) added an option to get the character image instead of the actor image
  • (movies/TV shows) write <tvdbid> tag for actors in the NFO file #1722
  • allow editing of cast from within the cast panels #1639
  • (TMDB) enabled logo scraping
  • added writing of TMDB/IMDB/TVDB ids for writers and directors in the NFO files #1731
  • added an option to disable the trash bin (.deletedByTMM) #1727
  • added an option to store NFO files outside of disc folders (VIDEO_TS, BDMV)
  • added an option to automatically “cleanup unwanted files” on rename #1775
  • added extended syntato movie search field.
  • added a NFO option to control writing of <lockdata>true</lockdata> #1796
  • enhanced delete unwanted files action to find unwanted folders too #1692
  • changed person-merge behavior: #1799
  • with “Do not overwrite” enabled, new person data will be merged into existing data
  • with “Do not overwrite” disabled, existing person data will replaced by the newly scraped data
  • Improved handling of Bluray/DVD disc folder structures (also within ISOs)
  • rework automatic aspect ratio detection (performance)
  • updated Movie Picker template (th@bastienpruvost)
  • copy file-date attributes on Windows #1674
  • improved download speed of trailers
  • changed imdb actor image loading/scaling algorithm
  • enabled downloading actor images for multi movie folders
  • loading of “ignore SSL errors” on startup
  • use collection as root node of the collection NFO #1731
  • (TV shows/movie sets) do not crash when title and original title column is hidden #1733
  • (Emby) preserve custom movie sets in NFO #1617
  • sync episodes to Trakt.tv via IDs where possible #1643
  • locked movies should not disappear on update #1784
  • adhere empty season folder on renaming ‘specials’ #1785
  • fixed downloading missing artwork for seasons #1794
  • remove failed tasks from the task list
  • removed tmdbCollectionId from NFOs because Emby does not read that any more #1793
  • fixed update datasource with additional files in disc folders / or at root level
  • reloading of user_note from NFO #1808
  • round ratings to only one decimal place #1807
  • filter for season artwork in the image chooser
  • some issues with filter loading #1811

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.8 (Apr 15, 2022)

  • enabled multi line notes #1710
  • updated libmediainfo to 22.03
  • added a renamer token for movie set index respecting missing movies #1702
  • movies/TV shows) write <tvdbid> tag for actors in the NFO file #1722
  • (movies/TV shows) fixed losing of entries after loading #1714
  • (TV shows) fixed incomplete missing episodes list #1713
  • (TV shows) smaller fixes for displaying missing episodes
  • improved download speed of trailers
  • (TV shows) allow episode numbers up to 6 digits long #1712
  • prevent adding duplicate data sources
  • prevent an occasional crash in the movie search dialog #1695
  • changed imdb actor image loading/scaling algorithm
  • (TV shows) removed duplicated shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+N #1719
  • removed some well known words from being deleted in the title detection #1721
  • suppress scraping a blank title due to a wrong configuration #1703

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.7 (Mar 9, 2022)

  • Added an action to rewrite movie set NFO files
  • Fix startup problems if your Kodi RPC credentials are wrong
  • Fix MediaSource detection for extracted DVD folders
  • Revert duplicate filter changes - too many false positives
  • Some enhancements for the TVmaze scraper
  • Fixed displaying of links in plot #1676
  • Clear inputbox when adding a tag #1669
  • Fixed errors when displaying plots #1679
  • Faster cancelling of an aborted search #1685
  • Fixed multi-language search results with TVDB API #1654
  • Fixed actor image loading from IMDb #1680
  • Fixed calculating of movie counts in the movie set panel
  • Enhanced getting alternative trailer qualities for trailers

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.7 Pre-release (Mar 7, 2022)

  • Added an action to rewrite movie set NFO files
  • Fix startup problems if your Kodi RPC credentials are wrong
  • Fix MediaSource detection for extracted DVD folders
  • Revert duplicate filter changes - too many false positives
  • Some enhancements for the TVmaze scraper
  • Fixed displaying of links in plot #1676
  • Clear inputbox when adding a tag #1669
  • Fixed errors when displaying plots #1679
  • Faster cancelling of an aborted search #1685
  • Fixed multi-language search results with TVDB API #1654
  • Fixed actor image loading from IMDb #1680
  • Fixed calculating of movie counts in the movie set panel
  • Enhanced getting alternative trailer qualities for trailers

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.6 (Feb 19, 2022)

  • added certification support for Hong Kong #1623
  • added button to create movie sets from within the movie editor
  • (movies/TV shows) added support for clearlogo in the information panels #1604
  • enabled displaying of animated gifs in the artwork panel #1621
  • added an action to just (re)scrape TV shows/episodes (without the need to trigger a search)
  • (TV show) added changing of the display season to the bulk editor #1590
  • (movie sets/TV shows) added enhanced keyboard navigation for tables #1408
  • also parse TMDB id from the filename in update data sources
  • needs to be in the form tmdb-xxxxx or tmdbid-xxxxx
  • added the option to use the release date as in the NFO files x enhanced the ISO parser for BluRays and DVDs x increased loading speed of large libraries #1613 x removed rating for movie set completeness check x do not check season names for missing seasons #1602 x storing of window locations/sizes in batch mode x force re-reading mediainfo after exchanging the video file #1631 x rewrote caching of animated gifs (if you have animated gifs, you may need to rebuild the image cache) x storing of hidden columns for some tables x cleaner shutdown of the IMDB id cache #1647 x added MAKEMKV to skip folders per default #1636 x proper cleanup of resources in the media files panel #1411 x (movie sets/TV shows) loading of filters at startup x enhanced merging of tags #1588 x fixed renaming of TV show thumbs when auto renaming is active #1630 x RPC: fixed Kodi version display #1651 x avoid downloading of 0byte images #1648 x some fixes to the TVmaze scraper x do not process episodes with season < 0 in the renamer preview x moved the scroll buttons in the update data source submenu to the right place x (TV shows) reworked filter for media files/notes #1656 x mitigate errors of invalid expressions in Kodi scrapers #1661 x (AniDB) better handling of specials x Duplicate filter also checks for matching name/year combo

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.5.1 (Jan 7, 2022)

  • Fixed proper linkage of dummy episodes with the TV show
  • Fixed getting the path of dummy episodes #1622

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.5 (Jan 6, 2022)

  • Enabled aspect ratio detection for disc folders (VIDEO_TS, BDMV)
  • Added an option to ignore specials in list missing episodes
  • upgraded Java to 15.0.5
  • re-ordered popup menus
  • add “path” column to TV show table settings
  • download missing artwork when saving movies/TV shows/seasons/episodes
  • fixed an issue with the FFmpeg artwork provider
  • consider external files when getting MediaInfo for movie/show
  • fix downloading trailer, if show has not been cleaned yet
  • fix checking for missing season names
  • remove movies/episodes in background (do not block the UI)
  • (TVDB/TMDB) use only configured languages for title/plot
  • reworked image downloading engine for less needed downloads and better artwork filename cleanup #1598
  • fixed loading of season fanart on startup
  • run aspect ratio detection for episodes too
  • added automatic text direction detection
  • further improve naming detection
  • (TVDB/TMDB) add networks in the front of the production companies

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.4 (Dec 8, 2021)

  • Added support for season fanart #1434 #1572
  • Support for getting FFmpeg thumbs from disk folders
  • Added bit depth to audio media information #1581
  • Prefer fanart without text to comply with Kodi standards #1565
  • Sort the column “date added” by date AND time
  • Some enhancements in the MPDb.TV scraper #1574
  • Sort filter presets by name #1575 (thx @dimitricappelle)
  • Moved the select all/select none items to top #1527
  • (TV shows) fixed writing of for Emby NFOs x (movies) include the original filename as valid renamer pattern #1578 x scraping several trailers from davestrailerpage #1584 x some enhancements in the renamer preview x some enhancements in the image chooser x re-aligned media information panel to show less duplicate data x (TV shows) added presets for Emby/Jellyfin x properly set the "ignore SSL errors" setting on startup

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.3 (Nov 13, 2021)

  • Support for multiple trailers in the same language (forced, sdh, …) #343 #1543
  • Make trailer table sortable #1492
  • Added a dedicated file name filter for video files #1509
  • Updated libmediainfo to 21.09 + re-added legacy TVDB API v3 (the shutdown of API v3 has been postponed to the first half of 2022)
  • Added trailer scraper for Dave’s movie trailer page (https://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/)
  • Displaying of artwork is now configurable (for poster, fanart, banner, thumb) #1495
  • Enabled editing of person IDs #1559
  • Added writing of IMDB ID/TMDB ID for directors in Emby NFO format #1558
  • (movies) fixed regression of #1048 where a duplicate movie may removed the original one #1557
  • (movies) do not update the selected sum too often #1510
  • Enhanced display of ratings if a user rating has been added #1513
  • Added tmdbid to the movie set NFO #1516
  • Cleanup of old season artwork when adding new one #1518
  • Fixed check of shipped FFmpeg #1522
  • (image chooser) show a warning message when a wrong url has been entered #1530
  • (movies) Duplicate filter now considers all IDs
  • Enhanced aborting of trailer downloads
  • Enhanced layouting of the movie/TV show settings
  • Enhanced nextpvr parsing #1537
  • (Linux) statically linked launcher to avoid glibc version mismatch #1542
  • Fixed occasional double spaces in the renamer results #1541
  • (TV shows) enhanced note filter #1540
  • Plot & note fields render now clickable links #1538
  • Enabled growing of the datasource settings panel #1548
  • Do not strip tag from TV show NFO files (TV shows) re-set episode IDs when changing the S/E number via the find episode dialog #1462 (movies) write the original filename (rather than the actual one) to the NFO #1556 Emby: quickfifor multi episodes by writing tag #1444

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.2 (Sep 20, 2021)

  • added selected entries amount and file size totals to the movie/movie set/TV show list #1450
  • added file size totals tp the movie/movie set/TV show table
  • added an option to set the default value for "do not overwrite existing data" to the settings
  • added a setting to ignore completeness check for specials
  • (TVDB) fix recent API changes from TVDB #1481
  • (TVDB) enhanced translation handling of our API implementation
  • fix some minor issues for the live update of movie set data #1477
  • calculation of minimum size for restoring window sizes/positions #1485
  • enhanced loading times of internal scrapers
  • fix detection of paths in skip folders #1493
  • fix detection of multiple trailers (Zidoo style) #1398 #1413
  • lowered defaults for completeness check
  • enhanced the filename filter to run against all media files
  • rewrote fetching of translated episodes in the episode chooser
  • (IMDB) allow unassigned episodes to be scraped #1494
  • several fixes for post-processing management

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2.1 (Sep 6, 2021)

  • (TVDB) hotfix for the broken TVDB search API x selecting images in the image chooser with double click x (TV shows) redraw tree on recent changes #1472

New in tinyMediaManager 4.2 (Sep 6, 2021)

  • added TheTVDB API v4 which improves scraping TV show (and movie) metadata in several places #921 #1367
  • added support for 3rd party scrapers (https://bit.ly/3smdPM8)
  • added Windows installer, macOS dmg and Docker image (https://bit.ly/3CN2Y2o)
  • added experimental support for post process actions (https://bit.ly/3si4Ew6) #817
  • movies/TV shows) added a better overview for compatible NFO consumers (media centers/other tools)
  • Emby users should switch from Kodi NFO style to Emby NFO style
  • added regular expression based skip folders (https://bit.ly/3xJ6aZa) #1402
  • enhanced visualization of missing metadata (https://bit.ly/3CGNeOF) #1350
  • Linux) ship libmediainfo for 64bit systems
  • added support for not overwriting existing items on scrape (https://bit.ly/37G1U20) #1368
  • added support for webp images
  • added country MX to supported certifications #1379
  • TV shows) added experimental TV show renamer preview #534
  • initial support for reading/writing movie set NFO files #1334
  • movies/TV shows) “add a new data source” has been added to the “update data sources” menu
  • movies/TV shows) added quick loading for filter presets #1267
  • movies/TV shows) added a filter for date added
  • movies) added quickfilter for notes
  • TV shows) added customizable quickfilters
  • TV shows) added filter for year and decade
  • TV shows) bulk add actor / director / rating / certification in episodes / tvshows
  • movies/TV shows) added column to see if note is available
  • movies) added the possibility to download just extrafanarts/extrathumbs #741 #1397
  • movies) added “inde
  • movies/TV shows) added more tags to the renamer (TMDB id, TVDB id, tags) #1458
  • movies/TV shows) added universal filter to filter all text based filters in one #1387
  • TV shows) added context menu for downloading best trailer for selected TV Shows #1417
  • TV shows) added bulk adding subtitle information #1396
  • movies) added option to consolidate movies on rename #1048
  • The drawback here is, that some sorting and filtering in the UI will be delayed for large libraries
  • since this is no more accurate (e.g. in Black Mirror) and scrapers like TMDB/IMDB provide detailed data for episode cast

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.6 (Jun 19, 2021)

  • (movies/TV shows) “add a new data source” has been added to the “update data sources” menu
  • (movies/TV shows) view NFO files and play music theme files in the mediafiles tab
  • (TV shows) added IMDB id to the TV show renamer #1344
  • (movies) added renamer fields for production company/studio (thx @DirtyRacer)
  • (movies/TV shows) reduced CPU usage of MVStore
  • (movies/TV shows) reduced loading time of the databases
  • (movies/TV shows) eager creation of .actors folder #1343
  • (movies/TV shows) prevent errors when closing dialogs #1348
  • (movies) Subtitles: detect and rename hearing impaired SDH ones
  • (movies/TV shows) prevent custom sort prefixes from crashing TMDB searches #1349
  • (movies/TV shows) improved performance of displaying the Kodi menu
  • (movies) added sorting via title as second sort order
  • (movies) set original file name for single movie folders too
  • (movies/TV shows) compare date added on the date part only
  • (movies/TV shows) fixed reading existing NFO files from disc folders
  • (movies/TV shows) catch more errors on failed scrape
  • (movies/TV shows) exchange data source between windows and unix style #1364
  • (movie sets) do not delete the artwork folder when all movie sets get removed #1371

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.5.1 (May 24, 2021)

  • added an enhanced aspect ratio detector (thx @icebaer72 and @All-Ex)
  • heavily reworked the Kodi integration #335, #966, #971, #1151, #1303
  • added a filter for movie sets containing missing movies #1279
  • movie) added year to the bulk editor
  • automatically restore a backup if a damaged database has been detected on startup
  • support for scraping adult TV shows #1307
  • new macOS icon that matches the BigSur style #1333 (thx @titanicbobo)
  • fixed loading of license module on UNC paths #1227
  • partly reverted changes to the database management #1315 #1316 #1291 #1306
  • reworked memory usage visualization in the status bar
  • do not pre-set artwork types in the (background) scrape dialogs, when automatic artwork download is disabled
  • x allow more season/episode variants to be detected #1302
  • enhanced check for missing artwork to extrafanart/extrathumbs too #1320
  • (TMDB) enhanced language fallback for es_MX, pt_BR and fr_CA #1326
  • x reverted splitting playcount from watched state #1296
  • x (movies/TV shows) make sure the actors folder exists prior to moving files #1331
  • x (TV shows) do not remove “season-all-*” artwork on rename #1327

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.4 (May 4, 2021)

  • Updated libmediainfo to 21.03
  • (movies/TV shows) added “force best match” to automatic subtitle downloads (rather than only download file hash matches)
  • Added possibility to double click the image in the image chooser to select the artwork #1094
  • Re-added various zoom options to the image preview window #1094
  • Added filter options for the image chooser #1253
  • (movie sets) some UI enhancements: show IMDB id, show artwork files, show year in search dialog #1285 #1280
  • (TV shows) option to only include the first studio in the NFO
  • (movies/TV shows) search via TMDB id, IMDB id and TVDB id is now possible (TV shows only)
  • Changed the database compacting logic to be more resistant to file corruptions
  • Fixed occasional crash on startup of the TV show module #1283
  • (TV show) support more than 9 extrafanarts in the renamer #1286
  • (TV show) also respect the trailer filename settings in the TV show renamer #1287
  • (movies/TV shows) respect first alphanumeric character for the “first” renderer
  • (TV show) embed episode details into a scroll pane #1289
  • (FFmpeg) suppress unnecessary error logs #1284
  • (TV show) write/read country tag to/from NFO files
  • (TV show) parse aired tag before the premiered tag for episode NFOs #1295
  • Repackaged the linux distributable to only contain one root folder #1257
  • Do not crash the scrape if imdb ratings cannot the loaded #1299
  • Enhanced cleaning of filenames on import #950
  • Some fixes for detecting/handling pt-BR subtitles
  • Reuse the playcount from pre-existing NFO files when writing new NFO files #1296
  • (OMDb API) enhanced searching of movies with short titles like “21” #1310

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.3 (Apr 2, 2021)

  • Emby compatibility enhancements:
  • (TV shows) proper trailer naming for Emby
  • (TV shows) added tmdbid to the NFO
  • (TV shows) added option to write <enddate> to the TV show NFO
  • (TV shows) added option to write all actors/guests into the TV show NFO
  • (TV shows) added vote count column
  • basic support for nextpvr recording XML parsing #1252
  • added shutdown hook to prevent database corruption
  • (TV shows) also fetch IMDB ratings for episodes
  • (movies) catch occasional errors in movie set sorting
  • check write access to the tinyMediaManager folder on startup
  • (TV shows) added columns for music theme and video bitrate
  • (TV shows) do not mix in a missing episode on media file exchange
  • (movies/TV shows) fixed creation of trailer folder while muxing
  • (TV show) fixed bug when writing TV show NFO
  • re-aligned new rating logos to do not take up that much vertical space
  • (TV show) prevent rating panel from flickering
  • do not draw the rating panel over popups #1265
  • change filter indicator if all filters are deactivated #1268

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.2 (Mar 22, 2021)

  • new columns for HDR and aspect ratio - thx @icebaer72
  • (movies/TV shows) re-added persisting of last used filters #1153
  • (movies) option to only include the first studio in the NFO
  • (movies) added cover.ext to well known poster file names
  • removed unused code fot TV show ratings #1233
  • display custom rating source logo #1233
  • do not delete tags on further scrapes #1233
  • (movies/TV shows) saving changed data sources in settings
  • (movies/TV shows) do not write NFO on update data sources
  • (TV shows) do not strip out TV show title from inside the episode title
  • changed renamer token ${hdr} to ${hdrformat}
  • better propagation of API errors to the UI #1237
  • (TV shows) reworked scrape new items
  • (TV shows) writing of correct NFO file name for BD/DVD episodes #1248
  • (movies/TV shows) fixed update data sources for git-annex setups #1223
  • run some long running actions in a background task
  • (movies) sorting of MS/RT columns
  • (movies/TV shows) fixed rendering issues of bidirectional text

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.1 (Feb 26, 2021)

  • Filter for note field
  • (TV show) fixes endless update data source #1230 #1228
  • (TV show) do not select all episodes in TV show rename action per default
  • Better visualization of failed download #1229
  • Increased max memory limit to 8G
  • Fix changing maximum download thread count at runtime #1232
  • Sort showlinks in the dropdown box #1231

New in tinyMediaManager 4.1.0.1 (Feb 22, 2021)

  • License changes - Now there is a FREE and PRO version of tinyMediaManager. In the FREE version there is no more limitation of loaded movies/TV shows or API calls.
  • The FREE version includes:
  • base functionality of tinyMediaManager (update data sources, scrape, rename, edit, eport, command line interface, ...)
  • TMDB scraper
  • The PRO version includes also:
  • all other scrapers (IMDB, OMDB, Universal, Kodi, ...)
  • trailer download
  • subtitle download
  • Trakt.tv integration
  • BIG scraper rework:
  • We split up all scrapers into individual sub-scrapers for every scope (meta data, artwork, trailer, subtitle).
  • This offers new options to configure them:
  • now they are all independently configurable (no setting for the movie section influences the TV show section)
  • we could strip out options which are not needed for the actual section (e.g. TV show options in the movie scraper)
  • they have a better code base for future changes
  • separated country setting for certifications and release date
  • The only drawback here is, that you may have to enter some options (like an individual API key) in every sub-scraper
  • ATTENTION: since almost everything changed in the scraper setup, you may need to re-set the scraper options after the update
  • added integration of FFmpeg:
  • You can directly download and use FFmpeg on Windows, macOS and Linu - as well as use FFmpeg from your system
  • creation of still/thumb creation via FFmpeg #1017
  • muing downloaded trailers using FFmpeg
  • added TVmaze scraper
  • enhanced Trakt.tv sync (added personal rating sync, reworked settings & actions)
  • added missing movies in movie set #1111
  • added an option to suppress tooltips in the main tables #1128
  • added a function to migrate eisting movies/TV shows to a new data source #1044
  • remember last used scraper for each entry - for scraping new episodes the same scraper will be taken into account as for the TV show
  • (movie) added full customization in which priority/order the rating should be loaded #986
  • use qualified metadata (title, plot, year, IMDB id, episode/season number) from mediainfo on first import #669 #1065
  • (movie) added an epert mode to the bulk editor to "freely" edit tet based fields
  • added a JMTE replacement renderer for custom replacements (movie/TV show, renamer & eporter)
  • added OMDB TV Show scraping
  • added more Columns for Movie Sets
  • added period (year of movies in collection) for Movie Sets
  • added clickable ID Links to the Episode Detail Panel
  • added button in tv show scrape/search window for opening TVShow folder
  • added original title column for TV shows / episodes
  • reworked visualization of ratings
  • added original title column for TV shows / episodes
  • added possibility to play the trailer url in the editor (Movie and TvShow)
  • added option to manual choose artwork in the movie set chooser (as for movies)
  • separated country setting for certifications and release date
  • rewritten Trakt.tv integration to be more fleible and ready for multiple versions of the same movie/episode #1031 #1081
  • echanged native file dialogs with tiny file dialogs
  • Windows users will see a change here, because tiny file dialogs uses the "folder browser" component from Windows
  • better error messages for SSL errors #1122
  • added z (No linguistic content) to the language code detection #1125
  • allow selecting of E00 in episode chooser for some special episodes #967
  • added an HiDPI splash screen
  • re-write NFO on gathering mediainfo data #1135
  • improved HDR detection #1134
  • set displayepisode and displayseason #1146
  • added Soap to well known genres
  • re-read mediainfo data for (e)changed files
  • (movie) remove missing/deleted files on update data sources
  • (movie) support more than 9 etrafanarts in the renamer #1156
  • (movie) sorting by new column #1161
  • (TV show) also fetch season artwork from tmdb #1158
  • (TV show) TV show related action can be triggered from episodes/seasons too #1115
  • (movie) adopted movie defaults/Kodi preset to Kodi v19
  • (TV show) fall back to TV show artwork if season artwork is not available #987
  • removing negative filters in presets

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.7 (Dec 22, 2020)

  • added decades filter for movies
  • added new column (audio title) in MediaInformationPanels (Movie / TvShows)
  • added HDR Format filter for movies and episodes
  • added movie set artwork completeness check options (like for movies) #1145
  • added "_" as a colon separator in the renamer settings #974
  • better error messages for SSL errors #1122
  • fixed downloading trailers #1136
  • detecting video resolution for certain 3D SBS files #1133
  • writing of movie set artwork with a path separator in the name #1145
  • smaller fixes to the movie search #1140
  • fixed renaming of episode extras (e.g. extra text files)
  • fixed loading of Kodi scrapers
  • fixed: do not set "episode guide" tag when selecting KODI preset

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.6 (Nov 27, 2020)

  • Added support of Kodi v19 style extrafanart (fanartX.ext)
  • Added support of sorting in movie set/TV show tree #540
  • Provide a filter for multi select combo boxes
  • Added file name options for movie set artwork
  • Added support for downloading TV show themes #825
  • Added video bitrate to movie columns
  • Added audio language filter
  • Added subtitle language filter
  • Major rework of the TV show renamer (cleanup of TV show related files)
  • Added first aired date to the episode chooser
  • Added the media source .WEB. to WEB-DL
  • Added "decade" tokens to movie renamer
  • Better movie title search (#1089)
  • Add support for syncing MP2, FLAC and DTS-ES metadata to Trakt.tv
  • Enhanced visualization of the image chooser #1090
  • Enhanced detection of container formats #1038
  • Added more icons for media sources #1069
  • Fetching 0.0 rated movies
  • Detect 4 digit episode numbers
  • Fixed TV show genre filter #1104
  • Separated reload media information from rewriting the mediainfo.xml file #1105
  • Skip data sources in "update data source" which are excluded in the settings
  • Prevent a possible memory leak in the trailer downloader #1099
  • Do not show missing seasons as shown #1102
  • Added aac logo

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.5 (Oct 26, 2020)

  • Added support for trailer download to /trailers #787
  • Re-added tinyMediaManagerCMD.exe for Windows command line execution
  • Added subtitle count filter for TV shows
  • Updated libmediainfo to 20.09
  • Fixed reading hybrid DVD ISOs
  • Completely reworked trailer downloading to fix several issues #1060
  • Reworked aspect ratio calculation
  • Lowered memory consumption of the imdb rating fetching
  • Draw table/tree grid when multiple rows are selected
  • Improved loading time of large libraries
  • More precise search results when searching for text only
  • Added an option to specify which actors should be fetched from IMDB #1062
  • Updated live calculation of movie set/movie count #1064
  • Inversion of media file filter for TV shows #1063
  • Prevent trailer from being renamed from within /trailer(s) folder
  • Support reading of the mediainfo.xml for unsupported files (.disc, .img, ...)
  • Fixed reading of mediainfo via UNC paths #1071
  • Fixed some updater issues
  • Fixed macOS dock pin issue
  • MPAA tag in the NFO now also respects the certification style setting

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.4 (Oct 7, 2020)

  • Added setting to suppress writing of <episodeguide> tag:
  • (image chooser) show original image always in original size
  • Errors when downloading images #1039
  • (TV show) write trailer urls in Kodi compatible format into NFO #1040
  • Proper update of vote count for ratings
  • Fixed writing of the .desktop files in linux
  • Fixed restart of tinyMediaManager after upgrade to v4

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.3 (Oct 4, 2020)

  • Added a year column in the TV show tree #1026
  • Added a release date column in the movie table #1029
  • Do not cleanup episodes if the TV show has not been loaded
  • Several fies for the universal TV show scraper #1024
  • Added second runtime column
  • Better movie detection when having them in 'reserved names' folders
  • Also respect current file names in the file name filter #1007
  • Show original image in original size #992
  • Several fies to the command line interface
  • Universal TV show scraper uses less memory now

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.2 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Enhanced display of ratings
  • Added action to re-fetch IMDB ratings #989
  • Set "Disable SSL certificate verification" to true per default to avoid connection problems
  • Cleanup of changed artwork etensions #1015
  • Show language names in UI language #1010
  • Added more rating providers to the settings
  • Re-added file size to the media files table
  • Preserve epbookmark tag in episode NFOs
  • Reworked the new indicator to use less space
  • Rebuild image cache when changing data source #1021
  • Writing/cleanup of downloaded subtitle files #993

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0.1 (Sep 26, 2020)

  • Bundled JRE and rewritten launcher (no installed Java needed any more)
  • Real HiDPI support (slightly changed look and feel to achieve correct UI scaling)
  • Mix in IMDB ratings for almost every scraper without the need of the universal scrapers
  • Universal TV show scraper
  • Completely reworked libmediainfo usage:
  • Full support of reading/writing mediainfo XML files
  • Better support of disc structures (.iso and VIDEO_TS/BDMV/HVDVD_TS folders)
  • Several fixes for reading data out of libmediainfo
  • Enhanced filter management
  • New command line interface
  • Mediainfo integration for Trakt.tv
  • Support for Windows taskbar / macOS dock access
  • Added a true regular expression search for movies/movie set/TV show titles
  • Display missing episodes in the season overview panel
  • Provide artwork from TMDB for Trakt.tv search
  • Added showlink support for movies
  • X better performance in regular expression searches
  • X fixed handling of MP2/MP3 streams
  • X enhanced downloading of youtube trailers
  • X KodiRPC: improve matching

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.9 (Sep 18, 2020)

  • removed kyradb.com artwork provider
  • take the correct artwork extension when using local files in the image chooser
  • several enhancements to the AniDB scraper

New in tinyMediaManager 4.0 Build 2020-09-07 Nightly (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Doc: better wording of delete movies/TV shows
  • Fix: added link to license purchase page
  • Doc: better wording of delete movies/TV shows
  • Feature: re-arrange popup menus
  • Fix: do not write prerel job id to nightly HP
  • Feature: ability to download actor images
  • Added: context menu entry for downloading actor images ( tvshow and movie )
  • Fix: allow update check only in full version
  • Fix: code cleanup

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.8 (Sep 1, 2020)

  • Updated libmediainfo to 20.08
  • Updated Movie Picker template (thx @bastienpruvost)
  • Removed a memory leak in IMDB scraper
  • Do not write fanarts twice in multi movie folders #956
  • Fixate artwork extension if not detectable #953
  • Propagate mediainformation events from episode to TV show
  • Write cleaner trailer urls to the Kodi NFO
  • More aggressive caching of AniDB requests
  • Set character and path encoding at startup #930
  • Do not open two windows when clicking on a link
  • Do not crash at startup with an inconsistent movie set <-> linkage
  • (tv show) added some missing menu items to the context menu #934
  • (movie) pre-select the right NFO file names in the NFO settings panel
  • Save scraper config in the custom data folder too #962
  • (imdb) fixed to scrape shows without season 1
  • (omdb) set IMDB id when scraping with OMDb API

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.8 Build 2020-08-18 Nightly (Aug 20, 2020)

  • lib: updated libmediainfo to 20.08

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.8 Build 2020-08-06 Nightly (Aug 11, 2020)

  • Fix: added some missing menu items to the context menu
  • Fix: do not crash at startup with an inconsistent movie set <-> linkage

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.8 Build 2020-07-25 Nightly (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Fix: write cleaner trailer url to Kodi NFO

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.8 Build 2020-07-21 Nightly (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Fix: more aggressive caching of AniDB requests

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.7 (Jun 29, 2020)

  • (movie) only show used genres in the genre filter
  • Added fr_CA to scraper languages
  • Fixed detection of multipart files
  • Fixed displaying of h265/hevc logo
  • Fixed writing of h265/hevc to the NFO file
  • Improved handshake with opensubtitles
  • (tmdb) stricter fallback language detection #897
  • Fixed deleting search results where title AND year are the same but the movie is different

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.6 (Jun 1, 2020)

  • Further improve episode detection #824
  • Added (internal) subtitle language information to the renamer tokens #855
  • Added support for double digit stacking patterns (cd12, part12, ..)
  • (movie/TV show) better support for filtering movies by text (regular search, normalized search)
  • Added zh_CN and zh_HK to scraper languages #885
  • Fixed writing of multiple tags (date_added and user_note) in the NFO file
  • Changed video codec HEVC/x265 to the more common name h265
  • Fixed occasional UI glitches where artwork did not change
  • Fixed occasional error messages when removing movies #857
  • Fixed TMDB fallbackLanguages parsing #861
  • (movie) only provide ascending and descending sort order of table columns
  • (movie/TV show) provide tags (in dropdown lists) in a sorted order
  • (movie) do not move movie extras out of the "Extra(s)" folder upon renaming
  • Force closing of files after subtitle hash calculation
  • (windows) call the default file manager rather than explorer.exe for opening folders
  • Do not automatically scroll down in the image chooser
  • Catch occasional hiccups in the trailer panel #864
  • Fixed layout of the movie settings panel
  • Fixed rescaling of the tasklist #892
  • Fixed special handling of discart with multi movie folders/disc images

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.5 Build 2020-03-08 Nightly (Apr 9, 2020)

  • Fix: catch exceptions in episode NFO parsing

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.5 Build 2020-02-21 (Mar 22, 2020)

  • Feature: re-layouted information panels
  • Fix: increased timeouts even more
  • Fix: catch even more connection problems in TVDB scraper

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.3 Build 2020-02-19 (Feb 21, 2020)

  • Clean empty subfolders after renaming movies/TV shows
  • Added "remove artwork" for TV show seasons too
  • (Movie) added a new eport template: MoviePicker (th @bastienpruvost) #763
  • (TV show) added filter for aired status #783
  • Updated JMTE to 6.0.0 (IF tokens can now compare to another properties)
  • (movie/TV show) added and option to specify which date should be written into the dateadded field in the NFO #796
  • Display file creation/modification date in the media files table
  • Migrate eisting movie set TMDB ids to the new form
  • Do an artwork cleanup when changing the movie set name
  • Do not count missing episodes several calculations #769
  • (TV show) moved name setting for special season to the image setting panel #775
  • (TV show) removed duplicate hotkey
  • (IMDB) enhanced parsing of release dates #777
  • (YouTube) fied etraction of newer YouTube trailers
  • (TV show) fied filtering for video format
  • Better scrolling in the renamer settings
  • (IMDB) do not lock the UI if there are no episodes on IMDB #785
  • Cleanup of artwork when removing movie sets #789
  • (TV show) fied display of artwork size for season artwork #793
  • (Trakt.tv) better test routine to show if the connection works
  • Remember last used folder when choosing files #791
  • (TV show) only offer artwork types in the "Download missing artwork" dialog #795
  • Preserve file creation/modification date on renaming
  • (movie/TV show) try to preserve eisting IDs when re-scraping with a different scraper

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.2 Build 2020-01-14 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • Reverted usage of NativeFileDialogs for macOS users #762 #764
  • Fixed some issues in the file-/folder dialogs
  • Fixed migration of movies from 3.0.x to 3.1.x style

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1.1 Build 2020-01-13 (Jan 14, 2020)

  • Re-added AniDB scraper to the ui #759
  • Use another algorithm for title case rendering
  • Fixed movie set name cleanup for file-/folder names
  • Fixed Synology VSMETA parsing for backdrops

New in tinyMediaManager 3.1 Build 2019-12-06 Nightly (Dec 6, 2019)

  • Fix: sonarlint issues

New in tinyMediaManager 3.0.5 Build 2019-10-05 (Oct 6, 2019)

  • added a scraper for MPDb.tv (thx @wjanes)
  • added an action to force deletion of all HTTP caches (on disk and in memory) #656
  • added changing of the movie edition to the movie bulk editor
  • added a custom note field for movies/TV shows/episodes
  • added unwanted files dialog for TV shows
  • show popupmenu from text fields on macOS #637
  • crash on startup if some images could not be loaded
  • catch more exceptions on file download #642
  • do not try to open dialogs on disconnected screens #640
  • delete subtitle archive after extracting #641
  • fix update data sources from Google Drive
  • correct date format style in files
  • when unable to load the database, start over with a new/clean one rather than not starting tmm
  • fixed loading of the colon replacement in the renamer settings
  • enhanced detection of valid NFO files #638
  • write the plot content to the outline field in the NFO #630
  • ImageCache must not crash tmm on exceptions #659
  • enabled to explicitly filter for empty values #660
  • refactored the MediaPortal NFO format into 2 new formats for enhanced compatibility: MP MyVideos and MP Moving Pictures
  • do not crash tmm on startup on incomplete settings #663
  • remove a custom genre in the bulk editor does not throw an exception any more
  • do not overwrite user ratings on scrape
  • better logging of errors in the OpenSubtitles scraper #633
  • fixed movie in a movie set filter

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.17 Build 2019-05-14 (May 15, 2019)

  • fixed artwork loading from TVDB
  • fixed IMDB id lookup for TV shows (to provide more artwork for TV scraping)
  • fixed AniDb caching issues (to prevent getting banned - th @soywiz)
  • fixed displaying of foreign certifications in the movie/TV show editor
  • fixed writing TV nfo files (episodesguide for TVDB)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.16 Build 2018-12-30 (Feb 19, 2019)

  • MediaInfo reworked their naming schema for audio codecs - please reload your media information where needed!
  • TMDB-scraper: do not accept empty IDs as perfect match
  • Fixed movie renamer to compare paths case sensitive
  • Fixed an issue of wrong file date calculation (MacOS)
  • Fixed truncated text on the movie settings scrren #443

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.15 Build 2018-12-30 (Feb 3, 2019)

  • added sortTitle to the movie renamer patterns (thx @xsxiaosa)
  • added XLARGE (2160p) fanart support for tmdb
  • added XLARGE (2000x3000px) poster support for tmdb
  • added Vietnamese and Thai to scraper languages
  • fixed loading of colon replacement for movies
  • fixed storing of several options in the TV show renamer
  • fixed some Java 9+ compatibility issues
  • rename movie set artwork in artwork folder after changing the title of the movie set
  • fixed writing huge actor artwork from imdb
  • enhanced backup of deleted files/folders on some operations
  • fixed Windows .exe files to detect alternative JDKs
  • updated libmediainfo to 18.12

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.14 Build 2018-12-08 (Dec 8, 2018)

  • Java 9 / 10 / 11 compatibility!
  • High Dynamic Range detection for mediafiles - you need to reload MediaInfo and then use $H in renamer
  • Option to ignore SSL certificate problems #373
  • Make colon replacement configurable (for movies & TV shows) #396
  • Retrying to get artwork for 5 times #369
  • Fixed detection of language names
  • Fixed scraping of OFDB
  • Fixed language name for sl/sk
  • CMD export: sorted movies/TV shows the same way as in UI mode
  • Fixed detection of nested extras folders
  • Fixed detection of extras/extrafanart/extrathumbs in TV show update datasources #395
  • Only set 3D flag/edition on first import #231
  • Fixed statusbar layout with long texts
  • TMDB: fixed fallback language scraping for episodes
  • Fixed subtitle search dialog
  • Fixed Trakt.tv, updating local NFOs even when no changes
  • Fixed IMDB release date parsing
  • Allow moving of symlinks #410
  • Fixed crash on weird language extensions #425
  • Fixed MovieSets #366

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.13 Build 2018-07-23 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • Improved image caching (you should clear and rebuild your image cache)
  • Updated libmediainfo to 18.05
  • Added another recognized trailer filename (movie-trailer.*)
  • Added {} as valid delimiter in the movie name detection
  • fixed importing of watched status from NFO
  • tvdb: load poster instead of banner in the search window
  • tvdb: fixed sorting of artwork from tvdb (by rating)
  • imdb: fixed episode date parsing
  • fixed displaying of the clear trakt button
  • fixed cleanup in the renamer #333
  • added logo for not rated
  • improved season and episode detection
  • corrected app version display on macOS
  • fixed some smaller issues on actor image handling
  • removed the zelluloid.de scraper (this service has been shut down)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.12 Build 2018-05-29 (May 31, 2018)

  • display Kodi scrapers at the end of the list
  • fixed imdb scraper: parsing of numbers in RU
  • fixed loading of the TVDB plugin
  • fixed movie renamer $1/$2 tokens (adhere ASCII replacement if set)
  • improved execution of external players (thx to @hampelratte)
  • fixed generation of season poster file name #288
  • further improved Kodi scrapers
  • fixed actor artwork urls from tvdb scraper

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.11 Build 2018-05-07 (May 7, 2018)

  • Added Ł and ł in the ascii replacer
  • Changed tvdb API to version 2

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.10 Build 2018-04-26 (Apr 26, 2018)

  • feature: Kodi plugins now able to download images (movies)
  • fixed registering donator version

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.9 Build 2018-04-23 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • removed usage of Google Analytics
  • added hebrew as media language (thto @israelio)
  • several fixes in the OSstarter script
  • fixed opening of dialogs without parents
  • fixed occasional errors on closing
  • fixed downloading extrafanart/extrathumbs after network failures
  • improved downloading of artwork from movie/TV show editors
  • fixed auto select the first search result in the search windows
  • fixed sorting of movies in movie sets
  • fixed IMDB parsing from movie NFOs
  • improved IMDB scraping original titles
  • improved episode title detection (cleanup)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.9 Build 2018-04-17 Pre-release (Apr 17, 2018)

  • removed usage of Google Analytics
  • several fixes in the OSX starter script
  • fixed opening of dialogs without parents
  • fixed occasional errors on closing
  • fixed downloading extrafanart/extrathumbs after network failures
  • fixed auto select the first search result in the search windows
  • fixed sorting of movies in movie sets

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.8 Build 2018-02-08 (Feb 8, 2018)

  • Added frame rate from mediainfo
  • Updated libmediainfo to 17.12
  • Show result window of the "find missing movies" feature
  • FiIMDB language, release date and episode thumb parsing
  • Fiparsing audio channel information
  • Finaming detection for 4k files
  • FiKodi scraper plugins unicode decoding
  • Improve Kodi scraper plugins http requests (correct headers)
  • Added more java 9 compatibility options
  • Fixed cancelling of actor image downloads
  • Added 2160p to file name cleanup

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.7 Build 2017-12-28 (Dec 29, 2017)

  • Added DataTables export template - thx to @C. Janke
  • Fixed the imdb scraper (imdb changed their web pages) - thx to @Grizzler89
  • Fixed a parsing problem in the Kodi scraper
  • Fixed movie renamer with animated posters

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.6 Build 2017-12-10 (Dec 11, 2017)

  • Add persian language
  • Added option to include external audio files in Kodi NFO streamdetails (th@midgetspy)
  • Support for mediainfo 17.10XMLs
  • Updated mediainfo to 17.10
  • Fixed java 9 compatibility issues
  • Fiparsing MediaInfo for .ISO files (endless hanging sometimes)
  • Reduced log output on the console for the command line version
  • Fianimated pictures scraper; did not work on automatic scrape
  • FiAniDB scrape (too much results)
  • Ficountry tags in NFO (now multiple)
  • Change episodeguide url in TvShow NFOs
  • Cleaning of orphaned episodes in the database
  • Storing of episodes in special seasons (season 0) no more switches to season -1
  • Fioccassional crashes when writing objects to the database
  • Fiaudio codes parsing of audio files (th@midgetspy)
  • Firenaming of movies with renamer token $2 and starting with umlauts

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.5 (Oct 6, 2017)

  • Added some more (common) languages to the available scraper languages
  • Adapt IMDB site changes; getting plot works again
  • Fix fanart.tv scraping (thread crash)
  • Fix TMDB actor naming scrape
  • Fix ANIDB scraper (no episode/season fetched)
  • Fix Kodi scraper
  • Fix of the bug report dialog (saving log files and layout)
  • Some minor fixes

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.4 Build 2017-08-25 (Aug 27, 2017)

  • HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Kodi XML scrapers for TV shows! (Donator only)
  • MediaInfo changes: if you have high-res, 6+ channel, 4k files,
  • it is recommended to do a "mediainfo reload" of all movies, to get the correct icons.
  • Animated poster scraping (not always visible inside TMM, but on filesystem)
  • OMDb API scraper. Private scraper
  • TinyMediaManager offers a limited access to OMDb API (10 calls per 15 seconds)
  • removed the RottenTomates scraper because this service is no longer available for public usage
  • updated libmediainfo to 0.7.98
  • export movies/tv shows via command line #116
  • added fallback language scraping with tmdb scraper
  • fixed various templates to use correct graphics
  • added new templates
  • DeadSix27 HTML generator
  • Mobile Movie Search
  • added more icons for high res audio & video streams (Atmos, TrueHD, DTS:X, 4k)
  • added UltraHD Blu Ray as media source
  • added .sup as subtitle format for new installations #162
  • existing ones may have to add this file type in the settings)
  • added video bit depth from mediainfo
  • added more detailed video resolutions #181
  • preload settings screen for faster startup
  • enhanced autom. downloading of subtitles #157
  • fixed handling for nested movie structures
  • fixed default value for copyArtwork exporting
  • fixed TV multi episode renaming #143
  • fixed handling of JPEG images
  • fixed storing preference for episode scrape
  • fixed deleting original graphics on cache-miss
  • changed forum links to the kodi.tv domain #155
  • fixed some things in the image cache #153
  • fix some surround audio icons #117
  • fixed a mediaInformation JVM crash on some DVD ISO files
  • fixed/enhanced media source detection #172
  • fixed detection of certain audio streams with mediainfo #173
  • fixed the year field in the editors: now you can set the year to zero
  • better handling of network interruptions in the artwork downloader
  • fixed default window size of the bug report dialog #184

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.3 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • HOTFIX: use 0.7.93 MediaInfo lib, latest one crashes on ISO files!
  • EXPERIMENTAL: UPnP support - https://goo.gl/NieeJ8
  • Updated libmediainfo to 0.7.94
  • Changed display of runtime in media files tab to a shorter version with seconds
  • Updated Trakt, now being able to scrape in user language (if available)
  • Correct wrong TVDB entries, where year is specified in title
  • Added movie edition to the NFOs
  • Remember some choices you do in the UI (like chosen export folder, export template, ...)
  • Added warning when exporting to a non empty directory
  • Added button for TV show renamer in the top bar
  • Enhanced video format detection #131
  • Added "update single movie" (in addition of update datasource)
  • Movie list: the indicator for missing artwork now respects your settings (poster/fanart only!)
  • Some scraper can now scrape with the first aired date in addition to season/episode number
  • Added movie sorting by release date
  • Added spoken languages to MediaPortal NFO
  • Write media source to episode NFOs too
  • Enhanced season/episode parser
  • Fixed several crashes when pressing the play button #139
  • Fixed stacking detection #132
  • Fixed some Trakt.tv syncing issues #137
  • Fixed searching for movie set id in movie set editor
  • Fixed scraping localized countries #110
  • Automatically drop corrupt entries from the database
  • Fixed actor image writing
  • Fixed movie renamer token $1/$2 to use first alpha numeric character
  • Fixed Plex trailers wrongly detected as extras #135
  • Fix thumb image naming for disc style episodes
  • Fix renaming of disc style episodes
  • Fixed start of playback on several linux systems
  • Fixed movie renamer where trailing dots have been truncated for folders
  • Fixed writing of .actors thumbs
  • Fixed reading of mediainfo.xml
  • Fixed movie sorting
  • Changed appearance of the subtitle download button #140 #119
  • Fixed searching for TV show actors in the UI filter you may need to restart tinyMediaManager once after the update

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.2 Build 2017-01-27 (Jan 28, 2017)

  • added action: download missing artwork
  • added parsing of Synology VSMETA files
  • added shortcut (CTRL - F) to jump to the search field (thx @hampelratte)
  • improved user interaction for tags and genres (thx @hampelratte)
  • get a list of video files for TV show export with episode.videoFiles
  • added HDRip as an own media source
  • movie renamer: added $K token (first tag)
  • added moving of genres/tag in the movie editor
  • fixed localized artwork loading for brazilian users
  • fixed deleting of backup folder in windows #120
  • fixed detection/renaming of movieset artwork in movie folders #111
  • do not remove movie set artwork when removing movies from tmm #111
  • do not remove movie sets when removing movies/data sources from tmm #111
  • increased max memory setting for 64bit users to 2560MB
  • updated MediaInfo to 0.7.91
  • fixed parsing of media source

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9.1 Build 2016-12-12 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • added Trakt.tv scraper
  • added option in the bulk renamer to set/clear the sort title
  • updated libmediainfo to 0.7.90
  • / added escaping of file names/urls in the movie eporter
  • fied loading of plugins from a network share
  • added a connector for BMC/Kodi < v16
  • fied some UI scaling issues
  • fied NFO writing for multi movie folders
  • fied settings for Turkish language (#102)
  • fied renaming in case insensitive file systems (#101)
  • respect renamer settings for subtitle language tag when downloading
  • fied language code detection (#107);
  • (user with swedish subs may have to rename their subs after upgrading!)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.9 Build 2016-10-27 (Oct 28, 2016)

  • SCRAPER CHANGES:
  • You now have the option to scrape localized language/country names instead of ISO codes
  • Check your scraper config (IMDB/TMDB/MovieMeter.nl)!
  • MOVIE SET CHANGES:
  • Due to recent changes in Kodi we've changed our internal handling of movie sets:
  • the sorttitle of movies in a movie set is no longer used
  • tinyMediaManager now supports the new NFO style for movie sets
  • Due to the NFO changes and sorttitle changes you should rewrite the NFO
  • files of your movies if you use movie sets! (Don't forget to re-import your movies in Kodi)
  • MediaInfo: parse pre-generated XMLs (mainly needed for ISO files)
  • added support for clearlogos
  • added a date picker for easier date editing
  • added automatic download of extra artwork for movie sets
  • implemented filtering for multiple tags (movie & TV shows)
  • implemented filtering for multiple datasources (movie & TV shows)
  • added play button in the movie chooser
  • added scraping of movie set artwork from fanart.tv
  • added connection throttling for anidb
  • added theatrical to movie editions
  • fixed subtitle downloading where language tag got stripped off
  • fixed a UI glitch in the movie renamer settings when no folder name has been chosen
  • fixed Kodi scraper detection on MacOS
  • some improvements to the TV show renamer
  • fixed update of offline data sources
  • fixed an occasional multi threading problem (ConcurrentModificationException)
  • fixed loading of online movie set artwork (if no local artwork has been found)
  • adhere graphic settings better for multiple movies in one directory / disc folders
  • added filter indicator for TV shows too
  • fixed detection of episode files
  • improved episode name detection at import
  • fixed renaming TvShows on CMD line
  • fixed downloading of empty movie set image files
  • fixed changing the default scraper in the episode editor dialog
  • many internal changes....

New in tinyMediaManager 2.8.4 Build 2016-10-04 Pre-Release (Oct 8, 2016)

  • You now have the option to scrape localized language/country names instead of ISO codes. Check your scraper config (IMDB/TMDB/MovieMeter.nl)!
  • MediaInfo: parse pre-generated XMLs (mainly needed for ISO files)
  • added a date picker for easier date editing
  • implemented filtering for multiple tags (movie & TV shows)
  • implemented filtering for multiple datasources (movie & TV shows)
  • added play button in the movie chooser
  • added scraping of movie set artwork from fanart.tv
  • added connection throttling for anidb
  • fixed subtitle downloading where language tag got stripped off
  • fixed a UI glitch in the movie renamer settings when no folder name has been chosen
  • fixed Kodi scraper detection on MacOS
  • some improvements to the TV show renamer
  • fixed update of offline data sources
  • fixed an occasional multi threading problem (ConcurrentModificationException)
  • fixed loading of online movie set artwork (if no local artwork has been found)
  • adhere graphic settings better for multiple movies in one directory / disc folders
  • added filter indicator for TV shows too
  • fixed detection of episode files
  • fixed renaming TvShows on CMD line
  • fixed downloading of empty movie set image files
  • fixed changing the default scraper in the episode editor dialog
  • many internal changes....

New in tinyMediaManager 2.8.3 Build 2016-08-15 (Aug 15, 2016)

  • movies: created an own column for available meta data (reverted logic for NFO column)
  • Take year differences more into account, when comparing scraper search results
  • Do not download default movie poster/fanart, if none selected.
  • Do not write NFO, if none selected.
  • better visualize running tasks
  • Added some memory stats to status bar
  • fix MediaInfo crash on some DVD ISOs
  • fix TV Episode NFOs for extracted DVDs
  • fix CMD line updating of TV shows
  • fix episode root path for extracted disc folders
  • fix adding/removing manual subtitle to media files
  • fix certification on rereading NFO
  • fix extracting export templates
  • fix TvShow NFO import when empty production company
  • fix manual sort title (reseted to empty on every save)
  • able to handle windows "junction" linked files (deduplication)
  • better visualize WakeOnLan menu item (disable when none found)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.8.2 Build 2016-07-19 (Jul 20, 2016)

  • MediaInfo for ISO files - yay!
  • reworked command line scraping, please check syntax (add scrapeAll, reworked logic for TvShows)
  • added select all/deselect all buttons for metadata scrape options
  • added persian to the scraper languages
  • added telecine, R5 and stream to media sources
  • added extra language setting for subtitle scraping
  • support folder excluding in Kodi style (.nomedia file in folder to exclude)
  • added media source renamer token for TV shows
  • updated tmdb scraper (thanks to @davidsben)
  • updated extras detection to Plex naming scheme
  • IMDB scraper: option to scrape local release date or global release date
  • fixed movie renamer dropping several image/NFO files
  • TMDB crash when scraping of several TV shows without artwork
  • fixed exporting of movies/TV shows
  • fixed TV show multi-file episode detection
  • fixed updating of tags in the UI
  • rename .idx files along with with .sub files
  • improved writing/reading speed for subtitles and NFO files
  • do not overwrite external Kodi NFO streamdetails
  • overwrite existing images in the exporter
  • fix for renaming into subfolders
  • fixed wrong scraped release dates (where no release date has been found)
  • fixed TV episode detection for extracted disc files
  • changed the NFO column to better indicate scraped/unscraped movies
  • better detection of movie name out of filename

New in tinyMediaManager 2.8 Build 2016-06-13 (Jun 14, 2016)

  • IMPORTANT: changed certification output (in NFO files) from a fixed string to a set of templates.
  • Please check your movie settings after upgrade !
  • Default for Kodi NFOs: LARGE (e.g. DE:FSK 16 / DE:FSK16 / DE:16 / DE:ab 16)
  • Default for MP NFOs: TECHNICAL (e.g. DE_FSK16)
  • added subtitle scraping (via OpenSubtitles.org) http://goo.gl/oRnXnr
  • complete rewrite of “update datasource” for movies - massive performance boost!!!
  • complete rewrite of “update datasource” for TV shows - massive performance boost!!!
  • added edition field for movies (now you can have the same movie in multiple versions without problems) http://goo.gl/aSWQt8
  • added support for offline media (media stubs) http://goo.gl/UR1VY7
  • added .tbn support for episode thumbs (Boxee box support)
  • added a field for movie editions (Extended, Director’s cut, ..)
  • added bad words for TV shows
  • added option to opt-out our internal statistics
  • moved scraping of artwork/trailers in a separate task after searching for a movie
  • added option to automatically rename a movie after scraping
  • added option to set the subtitle language style (for better Plex support)
  • fixed plugin loading from paths containing a +
  • fix #22 “search episode” scrollbar
  • fixed TV show image renaming (command line)
  • fix stacking marker detection for movies
  • added setting for our internal statistics
  • fix: use creation/modification date from file to specify dateAdded
  • fixed sorting of movies (respecting white spaces now)
  • fixed an optical glitch, where sometimes seasons end episodes appeared twice
  • detect Blu-Ray as BluRay source
  • fix: do not write local artwork urls to NFO files
  • some fixes in the renamers (movie & TV show)
  • some smaller fixes

New in tinyMediaManager 2.7.4 Build 2016-04-01 (Apr 2, 2016)

  • added vote count for Tv shows and episodes
  • fixed TvShow renamer when having duplicate tokens or multi episodes
  • fixed MovieRenamerPreview when using a sorted list
  • fixed TMM restart (when resetting database)
  • Display information, why plugins could not be loaded.
  • fixed copy/paste hotkeys for several UI field on OSX
  • fixed exporter file name creation
  • fixed writing set info for MediaPortal NFO files
  • fixed movie import with folder stacking

New in tinyMediaManager 2.7.3 Build 2016-03-17 (Mar 18, 2016)

  • bug reports are now solved via GitHub issues
  • added image exporting in the export templates
  • added media source to the TV show section
  • /x moved fanart.tv client key to the scraper settings (and released it for everyone)
  • Kodi scraper: fix some invalid XML headers
  • OFDB scraper: fix actor/cast parsing
  • Zelluloid.de: fix actor/cast parsing, and fallback for broken web search
  • Trakt.tv: fix writing correct watched state to NFO
  • CMD: update TvShows only scrapes new episodes, not all
  • improved data source update; parse new entries first
  • improved TV show renamer for multi episode files
  • finally fixed the NEW indicator behavior it will now work as in versions before 2.7 (NEW stays for the whole tmm session)
  • improved performance in the update data sources for TV shows
  • fixed searching for movie set artwork in movie folders
  • only write guests into episode NFO
  • fixed error in movie set editor when no movie was selected
  • remember last opened directory in the new chooser
  • TvShows: fix studio writing
  • fix loading of the movie-duplicate filter at startup

New in tinyMediaManager 2.7.2.1 Build 2016-01-22 (Jan 22, 2016)

  • Kodi scrapers are now configurable
  • Movie renamer preview: dropped donator-only status, now FREE FOR ALL
  • added web-dl to media sources
  • add writing of imdb id in TV show NFO
  • added $# rating movie renamer option
  • pimp scraper UI; add version s to all plugins
  • some performance fixes on updating datasources
  • remove bundled mediainfo for Linux (using system default)
  • fix movie renamer when having access problems
  • fix IMDB title fallback to TMDB
  • TvShow episode parser: fix common word replacement
  • rework scraper fallback logic, do not stop on plugin errors
  • fix the “new” marker never being cleared in special cases
  • MediaPortal NFO: parse multiple genres styles
  • NTFS: renaming to same name but other cASE now works
  • Movie actors: replace invalid file system characters when saving thumb
  • MacOS: save database on terminating with command-q
  • fixed error in movie set editor when no movies are assigned to the set
  • fixed error in movie editor where sorttitle has been lost

New in tinyMediaManager 2.7.1 Build 2015-12-31 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • added episode tags to the TV show bulk editor
  • fix startup problems
  • fix poster & fanart sizes
  • fix parsing of the year in the movie editor
  • fix filter in the episode chooser
  • rework “extras” detection

New in tinyMediaManager 2.7 Build 2015-12-29 (Dec 31, 2015)

  • With the update to 2.7 there are massive changes under the hood of tinyMediaManager:
  • moved source code management to GitHub and changed the build system to maven
  • changed the internal database engine from ObjectDB to H2-MVStore JSON
  • this change makes tinyMediaManager more robust and faster
  • introduced a new infrastructure for scrapers which makes developing new
  • scrapers less compleand opens the scraper interface to other developers
  • added a basic setup wizard for new installations
  • better detection of “stacking” markers (CD1, part1, …)
  • added support excluding folder from scan (via a file .tmmignore or tmmignore and settings)
  • rewrote all scrapers from scratch (including optimizations and bug fixes)
  • added a very special scraper for all that who have Kodi installed 😉 (donator only) (http://goo.gl/FEBIht)
  • assign movie sets feature is now free for all (dropped donator only status)
  • added automatic trailer download at scrape (dropped donator only status for trailer download)
  • added “date added” to the columns of the movie list
  • enhanced UI language to enable country specific translations (e.g. pt_BR)
  • changed trakt.tv login mode to PIN auth (you may re-check your settings)
  • added media info editor (some fields from media info are now maintain able)
  • added title sortable to TV shows section
  • added displayepisode and displayseason for TV shows
  • added option to persist UI filter settings
  • added native file- and directory-open dialogs
  • updated mediainfo to 0.7.78 and generalized folder structure
  • added tag for episodes
  • refactored episode chooser (search for episode is now available)
  • take the date added from the video file where possible
  • changed behavior of the _new_ state: it will now be dropped at the next update data source
  • the new indicator changed from the green font to an icon
  • added media source to NFO
  • fixed invoking the specified media player on OSX
  • included mediainfo fifor all platforms
  • changed the style of notifications to be less intrusive
  • changed NFO rewriting behavior to be less aggressive
  • prevent setting incomplete meta data when scraping was not successful
  • adding special characters to the sort title prefixes is now possible
  • several fixes in the movie renamer
  • reworked internal representation of artwork file names/url
  • (high performance boost for movie sets)
  • changed bug reporting system
  • reworked movie name detection
  • reworked episode number detection
  • enhanced detection of extras (samples, trailers, ..)
  • updated all templates to our actual data model and JMTE 3.2
  • tweaked “best-trailer” detection
  • fixed auto complete combox
  • fixed scraping episodes with DVD ordering
  • fixed special character handling of sort titles
  • fixed real offline startup
  • fixed cleanup on artwork scraping
  • fixed NFO importing issue when having multiple tags
  • fixed display of “never ending” tasks
  • fixed file name generation of movie/tv show export templates
  • fixed finding of additional files for episodes
  • fixed writing of watched state in MediaPortal NFO
  • fixed/improved trakt.tv episode sync
  • many smaller fixes and enhancements

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.9 Build 2015-07-27 (Jul 28, 2015)

  • assign movie sets feature is now free for all (dropped donator only status)
  • fixed NFO writing behavior
  • fixed a problem with , or [] as sort title delimiter
  • fixed detection of extra video files (samples, trailers, extras)
  • improved overall memory consumption
  • tweaked movie naming detection

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.8 Build r2052 (Jun 9, 2015)

  • added language code ZH (Chinese) to the scraper languages
  • added polish GUI translation
  • added language to the movie bulk editor
  • added option to suppress writing of movie set artwork to movie folder
  • added Polish translation
  • Movie renamer: fix renaming with empty settings
  • Movie renamer: fix renaming of unscraped movies
  • made writing of movie NFO less aggressive
  • fix occasional error where media information did not get stored
  • better detection of movie name/year on update
  • fixed sorttitle editing
  • fixed searching for tv show season posters (with 4 digit season)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.7 Build r2013 (May 16, 2015)

  • IMPORTANT: with tinyMediaManager version 2.7 we do not support Java6 anymore. If you are still using Java6, please update.
  • updated mediainfo to 0.7.73 (ARM users now have to install the system version of mediainfo for better compatibility)
  • Mirror support: TMM now distributed on several mirrors for better availability (and error handling for network blockages)
  • Movie renamer: complete rewrite – CHECK YOUR RENAMER SETTINGS!
  • Movie renamer: possible to “downgrade” a movie, when having no distinct folder. (CHECK YOUR FOLDER RENAMER SETTINGS!)
  • added sort option via sort title
  • added an option to name the episode thumbs without the -thumb postfix (improves compatibility for different media players)
  • added director to movie renamer tokens
  • added DVD order renamer tokens ($3, $4, $D)
  • changed detection of DTS-HD codecs (Kodi will display the right logo now after NFO export)
  • fixed multichannel AAC detection
  • added a warning message when doing an update data source and no data source specified
  • renamer: exchange colon with a dash. (even better than removing completely)
  • TvShow renamer: remove old/left-over NFOs
  • subtitles: language detection for SUB ones
  • the NFO files has not been updated in some cases
  • TheTvDB search cleans out too much “special” characters
  • fixed occasional UI glitches with TV shows
  • various smaller fixes

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.6 Build r1928 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • updated trakt.tv library to the new API
  • IMPORTANT: please re-enter your login data for trakt.tv
  • new sort order for movies: video bit rate
  • bulk editing of media source for movies
  • added rating column to the movie table
  • double click in movie set/TV show tree opens the editor
  • added a message history window (menu tools – show message history)
  • added filter option for year (movie)
  • added greek translation
  • reworked NFO naming. Now be able to add NFO inside DISC folders separately
  • fixed the season template in the TV show renamer
  • fixed renamer (movie & tv shows) for case insensitive file systems
  • better rewriting of movie NFO after movie set editing
  • HDRIP is now being recognized as BluRay (more common source than TV)
  • change writing of .desktop files for linux
  • fixed OSX app (now tinyMediaManager is launch able without Java 6)
  • bad words are now checked case insensitive
  • fixed search score calculation for tmdb/rottentomatoes scraper
  • enhanced NFO parsing to be more tolerant
  • fixed subtitle writing for Kodi NFOs
  • improved loading of mediainfo on network shares
  • fixed an UI glitch, where episodes disappeared after scraping
  • performance fix for offline movie set artwork
  • fixed various smaller issues

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.5 Build r1840 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • enhanced TV show and movie renamer
  • IMPORTANT: REVIEW YOUR TV SHOW RENAMER SETTINGS!
  • DVD ordering of episodes
  • added memory options especially for large media libraries
  • write thumb url into the NFO for multi episode files
  • added h265 logo
  • (experimental) added Rotten Tomates scraper
  • added downloading of custom image-urls in the image chooser
  • added genre to the movie renamer
  • now also allowing folder.jpg/png for disc images
  • option to change the language while scraping (movie and TV show chooser)
  • added several DTS profiles to mediainfo detection (+logos)
  • added some workarounds for failing TVDB searches
  • proper handling of the watched state in the NFO
  • catching some NFO parsing problems
  • improved parsing of imdb plot
  • improved performance of artwork detection for movie sets
  • better detection of media source (brrip, hdrip, hdtvrip, …)
  • fixed scraping of localized movie metadata
  • fixed downloading of season posters
  • fixed some minor issues with the command line version
  • fixed Mac OSX startup script
  • fixed some export template issues
  • fixed some performance issues with movie set artwork detection
  • fixed sort title generation for movie sets
  • respect max. screen resolution when opening dialogs
  • enabled double click in the episode chooser dialog

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.4 Build r1770 (Nov 15, 2014)

  • changed Fanart.tv to v3 API (with clientKey)
  • added more artwork scraping dialogs
  • new Excel export template (xml)
  • added $L language renaming option
  • added/improved 3D handling
  • certification bulk edit
  • add season to image chooser title
  • remember last opened directory in the directory/file chooser
  • fixed BD NFO
  • fixed Excel export template
  • fixed/improved some tooltips
  • improved artwork sorting, better language detection
  • fixed MacOS startup; Java detection, executable, …
  • fixed SSxEE TvShow parser
  • fixed movie exporter filename generation
  • ingore folders/files starting with .@
  • many code cleanups

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.3 Build r1699 (Oct 6, 2014)

  • added edit button for tv show season
  • fix physically deletion of movies in multiMovieDir
  • updated Trakt.tv libs
  • fix release build version info
  • fix TMM updater in case of error download
  • write additional NFO for DVD/BD folder
  • tweak getting modified date from files (speedup)
  • ignore backup folder when searching for missing movies
  • added more transifex languages
  • improved some needed debug loggings
  • and some more minor internal things…

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.2 Build r1661 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • added column for watched state to the movie table
  • added action to scrape episode metadata without thumbs
  • added quick creation of movie sets to the movie bulk editor
  • greatly improved our episode detection engine
  • performance improvements with loading and update datasources
  • fixed season poster detection
  • fixed occasional crashes with trakt.tv
  • fixed wrong filenames in the renamer preview
  • fixed losing donator registration information
  • fixed crashes in ofdb.de, moviemeter.nl and zelluloid.de scraper
  • fixed trailer detection (movies with trailer in their name weren’t added)
  • fixed startup crashes with orphaned movie sets

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6.1 Build r1629 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • fixed scraping of episode metadata
  • fixed TV show renamer
  • fixed year setting for TV show renamer
  • fixed image chooser for thumbs (they are no longer be shown as fanarts)
  • fixed slow performance of image cache with offline data sources
  • fixed crashes with trakt.tv sync
  • fixed opening of movie/TV show folder and playing of videos for linux/kde
  • improved handling of 0byte downloads (artwork) and choosing local artwork files

New in tinyMediaManager 2.6 Build r1614 (Sep 8, 2014)

  • bigger UI rework (http://goo.gl/3wy3gL)
  • configurable font and font size
  • preserve unsupported XML tags (from other tools) in NFO files
  • extra artwork (banner, CD art, clearart, ..) is now available for movies and movie sets
  • new threading model: you can now queue different tasks; display open tasks (http://goo.gl/yFGtPq)
  • preview of images in the image chooser (http://goo.gl/kIFaKJ)
  • smart scrape: if there is no result from automatic scrape a manual scrape will pop up
  • NFO enhancement: multiple IDs (from several meta data providers) will be stored
  • option to set the preferred media player
  • able to play trailers
  • trailer preferences (which one to automatic choose for NFO)
  • delete works now with deleting physical files (moving to backup folder)
  • ignore some Mac specific files on searching hdd/network shares
  • language updates
  • hotkeys for menu and other functions
  • improved season and episodes parser
  • several enhancements to the TV show renamer
  • show artwork from the media file panel in lightbox
  • export for TV shows basically done
  • more filter options for TV shows
  • media source management (http://goo.gl/cE62xb)
  • fix occasional database inconsistencies
  • fix TvShow rename in command line
  • fix an occasional crash when choosing artwork
  • empty url cache from broken/unreadable HTTP responses
  • better integration of the year to the result score calculation
  • filter duplicate results from ofdb
  • prevent audio streams from being added multiple times
  • detect stacking markers with leading zeros
  • import of watched state from XBMC NFO
  • thousands of various fixes and stabilization from past half year :)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.5.5 Build r 1406 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • enhanced writing of certification to the XBMC NFO
  • fixed media info loading problems for some users (JNA update to 4.1)
  • fixed a bug where an invalid config.xml prevented tmm from starting
  • fixed a bug when building the TV show tree
  • fixed a bug where some settings got lost when updating
  • fixed writing of the watched flag to the XBMC TV show episode NFO

New in tinyMediaManager 2.5.4 Build r 1382 (Mar 5, 2014)

  • There was a nasty bug in an external library with version 2.5.3 which caused our internal database to become corrupted.
  • Added some recovery functions, but there could be data which is lost. You can either
  • A) take a backup file from the backup folder inside tmm (the last one before 19.02.2014)
  • B) start over with a new database by deleting the old one (menu Tools -> initialize database and rescan/update all your data sources.
  • improved the TVDB scraper: the scraper provides better results and is not searchable with the TVDB id
  • fixed correct loading of swt.jar on all platforms
  • added slovenian language for the scrapers
  • fixed display of trailers in the table (in conjunction with a downloaded trailer)
  • fixed resizing behavior of the movie chooser dialog (buttons disappeared)
  • fixed a crash when writing NFOs
  • fixed a crash when canceling the movie chooser
  • compress database backups (to save space)
  • ignore more special files for Mac OSX (beginning with ._)
  • tweaked our HTTP interface to provide better results for slow connections
  • removed episodes now also disappear from the season list

New in tinyMediaManager 2.5.3 Build r 1336 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • activated SWT loading for all platforms
  • some crashes within the TMDB scraper
  • a database inconsistency with renamed episodes (if you still have some weird behavior with TV shows, try to remove and readd the TV shows)
  • sometimes artwork did not get downloaded/displayed
  • display high res fanart before the thumbs in the artwork panel
  • languages: added russian (incomplete)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.5.2 Build r 1321 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • added a lightbox effect, when clicking on an artwork in the movie/movie set/tv show panel (see this post)
  • updated mediainfo libs
  • (movie) when removing the last movie from a movie set, the movie set is also removed
  • (movie) added filter for certifications
  • (movie) added option to fall back to another scraper when not search result has been found
  • (TV show) added episodeguide to the TV show nfo
  • (movie) added languages (spoken languages) to the nfo
  • (TV show) added function to rename complete seasons
  • (movie) added double click event (in the table) to open the movie editor
  • (movie) added a better unwatched logo
  • added comments to the NFO
  • added movie filename to the movie chooser dialog (for better support of multi movie dirs)
  • when renaming TV shows, some episode paths still pointed to the old path
  • sometimes changing movie/TV show artwork wasn’t updated internally
  • better renaming of TV show disc images
  • improved performance when removing multiple movies
  • some inconsistances with linking of movies and moviesets
  • in movie/TV show chooser – prevent strange behaviour when changing the scraper while another search is active
  • added producers also to the nfo
  • changed TV show – certification settings (thetvdb only provides US certs..)
  • prevent some exceptions when renaming/filtering TV shows
  • parsing of multi movie dirs
  • wrong saving of the tmdb id since 2.5.1

New in tinyMediaManager 2.5.1 Build r 1273 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • fixed a problem where mediainfo could not be loaded
  • fixed a database loading problem

New in tinyMediaManager 2.5 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • feature: completely reworked the TV show panel (including a new panel for seasons)
  • feature: completely reworked the (movie) filter panel and added a filter panel for TV shows
  • feature: added movie filters: datasource, missing metadata, missing artwork, missing subtitles, new movies
  • feature: added TV show filters: datasource, cast member, missing metadata, missing artwork, missing subtitles, new episodes
  • feature: added possibility to hide several columns in the movie table
  • feature: experimental support for AniDB scraper
  • feature: added fanart.tv for TV shows
  • feature: added imdb top 250
  • feature: added producers
  • feature: added an ASCII cleaner for the renamer
  • feature: added “bad words” to the movie importer
  • feature: possibility to get the runtime from media files rather than scraper
  • feature: added some settings for the TV show renamer
  • feature/fix: reworked tagging of TV shows and episodes
  • fix: many enhancements to the “update datasources” and database engine -> tmm is much faster now with large databases
  • fix: some fixes and preventions to the “update datasources” engine
  • fix: many memory optimizations (tmm now uses less memory)
  • fix: when renaming an actor, the actor thumb also gets renamed
  • fix: several issues/problems with the renamer
  • fix: artwork naming for DVD/BR images
  • fix: adapted scaling factor of the tmm window – now it should fit on lower screens nicely
  • fix: crash at startup with invalid locales
  • fix: crash when searching for a movie set is fixed with themoviedbapi 3.9
  • fix: NFO parsing of xbmc-youtube plugin urls
  • fix: externalized some more string (better translations)
  • fix: several fixes to the TV show renamer
  • translations: added Spanish, Italian, Korean, Norwegian; completed Fr

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.7 Build r 1159 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • feature: added configurable scraper threshold (thx to georg)
  • fix: some performance enhancements to the movie importer
  • fix: remove set tag from XBMC nfo after removing a movie from a set
  • fix: more effective scaling of images (out of heap error should be gone)
  • fix: MovieRenamer/Cleanup: ‘thumbs’ were ignored/lost in GUI
  • fix: better certification import from MP NFOs
  • fix: more enhancements to the imdb scraper (especially for non english speaking users)
  • fix: minified movie chooser window to fit on smaller screens
  • fix: better subtitle detection
  • fix: scrape collection info is now possible without scraping any other metadata
  • fix: NFO file name/location for DVD/BR folders

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.6 Build r 1135 (Nov 2, 2013)

  • feature: new TV show renamer option: 01×01 format
  • feature: added a tag for optional tokens {}
  • fix: added -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to solve possible networking problems
  • fix: regression when choosing of local files
  • fix: reworked actor images (better import performance, jpg/png instead of tbn)
  • fix: removed www.imdb.de (isn’t working anymore – www.imdb.com is taken all the time, including a force to the preferred scraping language)
  • fix: some graphical changes to the moviechooser

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.5 Build r 1125 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • feature: when getting only 1 search result at automatic scrape, we assume it is the right one (and take it – ignoring the score)
  • feature: added update single data source to the menus
  • fix: on some machines, tmm crashed at startup (using oracle java 8)
  • fix: samples of TV show episodes will now be renamed to a samples folder
  • fix: added env.txt for linux users (they can now use mediainfo without drawbacks on non-UTF8 installations)
  • fix: tweaked import logic and media info parsing (should work better with large libraries)
  • fix: directory separators in movie renamer file naming will now be ignored
  • fix: when scraping new items in the TV show section, sometimes the whole TV show has been rescraped
  • fix: the TV show importer will now recognize also .tbn

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.4 Build r 1110 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • feature: added icons to the menu items
  • feature: changed our notification system
  • feature: improved caching of extrathumbs/extrafanart
  • feature: improvements to the renamer (+new commandline argument -checkFiles)
  • feature: at single scrape, searches with only 1 result will automatically taken
  • feature: added context menu with common actions in the movie set panel
  • feature: selective datasource update for commandline (see here)
  • fix: massive rework on our caching system (images should no longer be cut off)
  • fix: do not cache images in the url cache anymore (they were kinda useless)
  • fix: set movie year an initial value if deleted in the editor (rather than NULL)
  • fix: for some users (mainly java 1.6 users) mediainfo was gathering nothing since 2.4.3
  • fix: better name/year detection in the filename/directory parser
  • fix: when downloading extrafanart/extrathumb no mediainfo was gathered for them
  • fix: when renaming a multiepisode file, the episode title will no longer taken into the filename
  • fix: changed IMDB scraper due to changes the plotsummary page

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.3 Build r 1078 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • feature: added video codec / audio codec filter for movies
  • fix: some enhancements to the search algorithm
  • fix: some performance improvements for updating datasources
  • fix: (OSX) mediainfo will now gather data from all files
  • fix: media information now gathers more audio/text details
  • fix: an invalid database recovery file no longer prevents tmm from starting
  • fix: wrapped settings into a scrollpane (tmm window is no longer larger than the screen on small res. devices)
  • fix: custom genres work as they should (also wrong picked genres are fixed)
  • fix: failed http requests are no longer cached

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.2 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • fix: spacer replacement with . went crazy
  • fix: ignore invalid IMDB entries
  • feature: a little better IMDB movie detection
  • feature: video format $F renamer option
  • feature: additional TvShow renaming separator
  • feature: better explanation why a movie is not scraped

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4.1 Build r1032 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • feature: detect imdb id from file/folder name at import
  • feature: switched scaling algorithm to imgscalr – is should now use less memory, be faster and the images have a better quality
  • feature: implemented a new column resizer – the tables for media files/trailer should now have more accurate column widths
  • feature: option to not renaming a movie into a movie set folder, when the movie set only has one movie
  • fix: do not overwrite imdb id / tmdb id with empty values when scraping
  • fix: better messages when renaming does not work
  • fix: added a warning that TV show episodes with season/episode number -1 (not detected ones) cannot be renamed
  • fix: added a warning before initializing the database
  • fix: do not rename movie trailers when the renaming settings are empty
  • fix: exclude movie set artwork from movie import
  • fix: do not import windows special dirs (like $RECYCLE.BIN or Volume System Information)
  • fix: store extrathumbs/extrafanart in the database after download
  • fix: rebuild image cache now also caches extrafanart/extrathumbs

New in tinyMediaManager 2.4 Build r1013 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • feature:
  • detect movies in multi movie dirs (this file structure is not recommended)
  • added wake on LAN support
  • add up to 5 fanarts to the MediaPortal NFO
  • clear image cache for single movies/TV shows/episodes
  • reworked search result score calculation (automatic scrape should now be better)
  • Moviemeter.nl will now gather more data
  • reworked movie panel for better access to common menu items
  • added certification to the renamer options
  • made search panel a bit smaller, so it is not taking up that much space
  • our 1000th commit ;)
  • fix:
  • fixed movie renamer. If you encounter some problems with incomplete renaming – an update datasource should fix it!
  • if you suffered from incomplete renaming, tmm crashed when selecting a movie
  • fixed a crash in the image panel
  • IMDB scraper should now return better localized titles
  • TheTVDb scraper will now always take the right language from settings
  • better detection of BR/DVD folders
  • changed working directory for *nix commandline shellscripts
  • cancel TV show renamer should now cancel immediately
  • close movie scraper (force best match) via ‘X’ will no longer start the scraper

New in tinyMediaManager 2.3 Build r967 (Sep 17, 2013)

  • feature: command line arguments! see here for more details
  • feature: localized Genres
  • feature: new video file type VIDEO_EXTRAS; detect additional videos according to https://github.com/brentosmith/xbmc-dvdextras
  • feature: added three differend space replacements for the movie renamer (like in the TV show renamer)
  • fix: display “runtime” from videos, if not have been scraped
  • fix: trailers: do not put local ones in NFO
  • fix: faster artwork panel
  • fix: better video format & aspect ratio detection (XBMC like)
  • fix: MediaFiles ordering
  • fix: writing now always fileinfos, corrected channel settings
  • fix: movie renamer: duplicate spacer replacements
  • fix: mark new movies did not work in all cases
  • fix: better TV show naming detection, removing more false positives
  • fix: “force” mediainfo
  • fix: certificate issue
  • many internal changes

New in tinyMediaManager 2.2 Build r912 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: added search field in the TV show section
  • feature: added $N token for movie renamer (movieset title)
  • feature: cleanup of empty folders in the TV show renamer
  • feature: manual reload of mediainformation for TV shows
  • feature: added “update selected TV show(s)” to the split button
  • feature: added expand/collapse all nodes in the TV show section
  • feature: added automatic backup of the database
  • feature: added slovak translation
  • fix: .desktop files will now get a valid path in linux (if you have troubles starting tmm via the .desktop, delete tinyMediaManager.desktop before starting tmm)
  • fix: better video resolution detection (now detecting 4:3 HD)
  • fix: some fixes for more stable TV show renaming
  • fix: on update datasources (tv show section) now the episode files will also get scanned with mediainfo
  • fix: subtitle renaming
  • fix: removed duplicate languages from settings
  • fix: some ui component layout in the movie editor
  • fix: more stable highlighting of new TV shows/episodes
  • fix: added /usr/share/java to the classpath for linux (to use system wide installed swt lib)
  • fix: better layouting of the bulk edit window (movie section)
  • fix: some code cleanups

New in tinyMediaManager 2.2 Build r865 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: TV show renamer
  • feature: 2 cool movie export templates from Matthew (jQueryliscious & SimpleConfluence)
  • feature: added country to the movie NFO
  • feature: added some more NFO tags which tmm will pass through (which tmm doesn’t support)
  • feature: movie renamer has a new option to remove/cleanup all non tmm NFOs
  • feature: added searching for TV show episodes (useful for specials – see here)
  • feature: added changing of UI language (see here)
  • feature: added sorttitle to TV shows
  • feature: added english as fallback language to the movieset scraper
  • feature: added highlighting of new TV shows/episodes
  • feature: added “scrape new items” action to TV shows
  • feature: added artwork panel for movies (which will show all artwork for a movie)
  • feature: added dutch and portuguese UI translations
  • fix: improved writing of XBMC NFOs (you should rewrite your movie NFOs)
  • fix: some improvements on the imdb and tmdb scraper
  • fix: better stacking marker detection for movie and tv shows
  • fix: many changes to movie sets (better scraping, better sorting)
  • fix: TV show season poster for specials now have the correct filenames
  • fix: remove logs which are older than 1 week
  • fix: some fixes to the movie exporter
  • fix: when adding new tags, they will now appear immediately in the filter panel
  • fix: occasionally crashes with the movie renamer
  • fix: codec/resolution images should now displayed the right way
  • fix: many, many stability fixes (thx to all bug reporters!)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.1 Build r768 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: option to update a single datasource(see post)
  • feature: added experimental support of moviemeter.nl scraper
  • feature: added fallback language (en) if the localized translation (title, plot, tagline) for a movie is not found
  • feature: added copy/cut/paste context menu for textfields
  • feature: force NFO rewrite
  • feature: added extra scraping action for episodes (e.g. for are new episodes in a TV show)
  • fix: many enchancements to the movie and TV show importers
  • fix: many stability fixes
  • fix: edited movie plot will now be stored (to database and NFO)
  • fix: sort order of movies in a movieset if the movie count > 9
  • fix: file name of episode thumb
  • fix: some fixes for MediaPortal NFOs
  • fix: when updating an offline TV show datasource, the TV shows will no longer get removed
  • fix: duplicate TV shows
  • fix: scraper settings will now be respected upon scrape

New in tinyMediaManager 2.1 Build r716 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: movie set token available for movie renamer
  • feature: added movie selection for the renamer preview (in settings)
  • feature: added more languages for the scrapers
  • feature: implemented lazy loading for actor images (now they are only fetched, if the cast tab is visible)
  • fix: massively improved movie renamer
  • fix: sortable title is now taken the right way
  • fix: respect “to scrape options” everywhere (movie section)
  • fix: improved import of BD/DVD folders
  • fix: better trailer results from TMDB
  • fix: better actor images from IMDB
  • fix: removed useless error popups when importing movies/tv shows with unreadable NFOs
  • fix: do not add the same datasource multiple times
  • fix: do not clean movies if the datasource isn’t available (e.g. offline NAS)

New in tinyMediaManager 2.1 Build r694 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: added play button to launch the video file with your systems default player (post)
  • feature: notification messages in the UI (post)
  • feature: summary popup after a task (post)
  • feature: mass edit of TV show episodes (remove invalid ones/add missed ones, mass change of season/episode number – post)
  • feature: logging window (for an easy access to the errors/warnings of the log file)
  • feature: movies can now be automatically assigned to moviesets, when using the TMDB scraper
  • feature: worked almost all scrapers to provide better search results
  • feature: live preview of the renamer settings
  • feature: some enhancements to the renamer
  • feature: added .fanart.ext as fanart filename
  • feature: changes trailer urls in XBMC NFO for use with plugins (youtube.com will use the youtube plugin; apple.com, ign.com and some more will use the hd-trailers.net plugin)
  • fix: hidden folders (like .AppleDouble) are being ignored
  • fix: email field is now also in the bug report dialog (we need that for questions about the bug if it’s not clear)
  • fix: export templates should work again
  • fix: little fix to the actor panel (no need to change movie/TV show/episode to display newly added actors)
  • fix: regathering of mediainfo is now in its own thread and won’t block the UI anymore
  • fix: some problems with tags

New in tinyMediaManager 2.0 Build r650 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: changing episode thumbs now possible (local files)
  • fix: error in movie exporting
  • fix: crash when using empty tags
  • fix: crash when having an episode/season number < 0 or > 999
  • fix: storing window size/position settings everytime tmm closes
  • fix: multithreading issue (occasionally crashes on import/scraping)
  • fix: prevent loading of system jna for linux user

New in tinyMediaManager 2.0 Build r623 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • biggest update in the history of tinyMediaManager (almost 3 months of work):
  • added TV show management (not complete – renamer is missing)
  • massively improved speed and stability
  • multilang UI (english and german at the moment)
  • reworked imdb scraper (better results)
  • reworked renamer (better and faster)
  • reworked movie importer
  • reworked internal file handling
  • restructured the whole code
  • and a lot more

New in tinyMediaManager Build r912 Beta (Sep 12, 2013)

  • feature: movielist export (we still need someone to create a nice html template)
  • feature: native file dialogs (see this post)
  • feature: added zelluloid.de scraper
  • feature: added button to cancel “update datasources”
  • fix: changed path of movieset artwork to absolute